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The room was filled with toddlers busy playing

  • The room was filled with toddlers busy playing with their toys. I strode in, set my books down on the podium, then announced, "Welcome to Calculus for Toddlers. I am
  • your teacher, Ms. Takes." The toddlers quickly put their toys away & gathered eagerly at my feet, anxious to learn all they could about calculus. "We will start with derivatives.
  • " No the children said, "We will start at infinitesimal quantities and a theory of hyperreal numbers." Ms. Takes's mouth dropped. An alien intelligence stared from the toddler's
  • teddy's eyes. Yes, it's me. I'm projecting my thoughts to your mind Ms. Take. The child is an incarnation of the intelligence spawned in the organic cloud between η and δ Delphini
  • In the T52F Galaxy. That is 2,398,109 kilometers from here, by my calculations." There was one rocket sent there by Dr. Sardonicus after he had the famous twelve dreams long ago.
  • The Conglomerate had not heard back from the T52F-bound rocket in years, of course. But this was the year. Andromedicus was going to arrive at an unexplored galaxy and relay their
  • lunch order to the Roach Coach in the Sky. No response would automatically render this universe in play. Once in play this universe could be claimed by a rival roach coach. The Com
  • -pactor opened and swallowed this universe. The Roach Coach, along with Time Itself became compacted. Worlds collided and compressed. But still the roaches persevered. Nothing
  • could escape the gravity of all the matter in the universe and it crushed down to a black hole. The roaches crawled out of it. It was dark. "Let there be light," said one roach.
  • And as luck would have it, Aunty McBride turned on the kitchen light, and saw the roaches. She gasped as the roaches scattered. "Time to call the exterminator again..."

1 Comments

  1. Woab Aug 31 2018 @ 16:46

    Nice round ending, neorem!

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