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He took a sip of his iced-tea and slowly

  • He took a sip of his iced-tea and slowly swung in his hammock. He felt the summer sun dapple through the trees and heard the soft buzz of predator quad drones approaching rapidly.

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  • Again. Why couldn't the predator quad drones just leave him alone? The Company's been trying to get him back for the past eighteen years. Sighing, he got his rocket launcher and

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  • EMF pulser out of the shed. His best friend Joe and Joe's wife Sally noticed this and helped set up drone defense. They were just trying to have a darn backyard BBQ! Silent shadows

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  • slipped surrepititiously across the lawn as Joe & Sally crouched behind the hydrangea bush, aiming their son's BB gun & the EMF pulser at the drone above. The burgers were burning

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  • bright and Joe thought, "Who could flame your frightful symmetry?" They were perfect hamburgers. Sally and Joe moved into position to steal them from Wimpy. Drones. Guns.

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  • Bagpipes. Semi-automatic pez dispensers. All this for a couple of hamburgers? Sally and Joe decided it wasn't worth it and hightailed it out of the Wimpy bar, finding a forest just

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  • past the Tax n' Shine (where you can do your taxes & bleach your teeth at the same time). Joe was so deep in thought about teeth and taxes when he and Sally entered the forest that

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  • he forgot to change the air freshener to a big cherry. So as they proceeded through the forest the trees seemed to be getting angrier. Jill gasped & pointed at the pine tree air fr

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  • It asked in Treeish where were the cherries. Jill remembered the invisible hand knew where they were. So the last minute request was granted and the trees ate all the dried fruit

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  • and then felt a little weird, wondering if they had, in fact, eaten their own desiccated children. But they grew strong on the fruit and eventually became what we know as baobabs.

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