After Mind
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He brought his gaze back down to the gathering swarms of people at the doors of their building’s stoops. They huddled, dodged, or ducked in the rain. They shouldn’t fear it. He knew about the cure and the many more yet to come.
A foreshadowing rainbow in its cage of a sky rose over them all. The tips of Terri’s fingers fell back away from his as he raised his hands once again to the sky. He reached his two hands forward as if encircling the imagined crown of a king, and with a boyhood’s wonder fulfilled, set his vision of a crown upon his head. His mind was alive and the outlook for the world was good.
He absorbed the run of the rain on his face and slicked back the dripping locks of his hair with a comb of his fingers. He pulled his trigger of hope and smiled into the fall of the rain. “So,” he said, as he felt the strength of blue welling inside him, “this is what it’s like to be human.”
He looked back at Terri with a look only the two could share. It was true, she was there, he saw her, and they loved not being alone.
The air smelled sweet like shop oil, and the rain felt new like water.
He was the best of Cessini. Cessini was a Packet. And he had it all figured out in his head.
AUTHOR’S NOTE
Dear Reader,
Thank you for discovering After Mind.
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On my website, I’ll also post about scientific progress as we move toward a mind like Packet’s (or should I say, Cessini’s?). We’ll get there sooner than many predict.
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AFTER MIND / Spencer Wolf. – 1st ed.
ISBN-13 (Paperback): 978-0-986-21751-7
ISBN-13 (eBook): 978-0-986-21752-4