Horse Destroys the Universe by Cyriak Harris

Author:Cyriak Harris
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Unbound
Published: 2019-04-30T21:33:51+00:00

Meanwhile, back in the real world, I continued to idly chew a mouthful of grass for a few seconds before my body was completely obliterated by an explosion that left a crater ten metres wide in the field where I had been standing.

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Tim sat on a bale of straw staring into space. His glazed eyes wandered around the empty stable, settling on various items of dusty unused equipment. The large screen on the wall returned his blank stare with nothing to say, no more mysteries of carrots and bags to unravel, its control stick hanging limp and lifeless. The only glimmer of light in the room came from the phone in his hand, and it was the last flickering light of the world that was collapsing around him. It chimed now and then with an update of how much trouble he was in.

In the time that I had known him, I had never seen Tim display a great range of emotion. His expression was usually somewhere on the facial spectrum between mild confusion and couldn’t care less, but today I could almost swear that he was on the brink of tears. Shortly after the explosion that had left nothing more of his business partner than a set of smouldering horseshoes, the empire of BrainZero had been brought to its knees by a sustained attack on our online services, pushing them offline and leaving half of the world with nothing to do but emerge blinking into the sunlight. Three days had passed now, and as Tim sat there watching the waterfall of bad news on his phone it must have been dawning on him that he was now suddenly in charge of the largest corporate entity on the planet that he had no idea how to run, and it was crumbling around his ears while he had no idea how to fix it. I’d like to think those tears in his eyes were for me, but they were probably more for himself. He sighed deeply and switched off his phone, laying it down beside him at a safe distance.

Outside the stable door he could see the blackened crater in the field where I had once stood. It was surrounded by a ring of metal prongs supporting a line of limp police tape. One of the prongs had some flowers tied to it; I don’t expect that was Tim’s doing. The explosion had been rather hastily blamed on radical extremists. A group known as ‘Anti-Intelligence’ had even claimed responsibility, though there was still some question as to how such a fringe organisation might have acquired a drone-launched guided missile, and why they would aim it at a horse. Be grateful that it was only a horse, the police had said. Clearly they weren’t responsible for the flowers either.

‘Hello, Tim,’ I said.

Tim nearly fell off his straw bale as my voice broke the silence. He spun around in shock, his eyes darting around the gloomy room as if searching for a fleeting glimpse of my ghost.

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