I had just a few cartridges left: 2 essential

I had just a few cartridges left: 2 essential amino acids, 2 carbs, and a couple of fats. I hadn't paid for flavor emulation this month so my printer was serving some bland dishes.

So I improvised, entering the formula for what I thought was a donut and uploaded a klein bottle shape. But my 3D printer had a virus and what came out of the extruder was alive

and hissing. It was an Ouroboros - a serpent eating its own tail. It was printed very tiny but as it consumed itself it grew larger and larger, soon outgrowing my living room and

then, a meteor arrived and destroyed both Ouroboros and my room. I survived, but gained the superpower of turning other people into ice. Then I used the power to rule the world.

But what could I do with the world at my disposal? In the madness that followed my gaining of super powers, I turned most of the world itself into a desolate wasteland of Ice.

I peered down at my hands, surprised at their capability for destruction. "I was supposed to be a superhero..." I muttered to myself in the frozen tundra I had created, "But now...

Of my spirit of engagement and contretemps? Where do they come from, and where will they go when my organobotical tranceiver croaks? Jim Hutchinson made as if to attack, and I wond

ered how many times I'd have to deliver my deadly judo chop to his head.These hands of mine...weapons, I tell you! As it turned out, it took only 1 to fell Jim Hutchinson.Relieved,

I returned to my task at hand: Christmas shopping for my wife.I have no idea what to get her.Nothing is more terrifying. "Who the hell is Jim Hutchinson?" I wondered as I wandered.