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A Future We'd Like To See 1.25 - Real to Real Editing
By Twoflower (Copyright 1993)

I don't know exactly how many watts the system used. 'One
hell of a lot,' the salesman told me. Sounded good here.

This was the BEST sound system money could buy. Three main
walls of sound, angled just so to produce center, left, and right
channels. Two walls of sound behind me for the back channels.
Subwoofers to make the floor shake. Subwoofers with velcro
straps on the ceiling to make that shake too. This sound system
rivaled most rock concerts and violated most local arms treaties.

I paid through the nose for it, but that's okay, as I had
the money. Whoever said nobody wins the lottery is a lying
moron, and I have (or had) five million credits to prove it.

I carefully selected the first CD2 to play on my new
PowerSystem. Hmmm. I think the soundtrack to Battlestar
Metallica shall do it nicely. I popped the three-inch black disk
into my walkman, then jacked the walkman into the incredibly huge
cord connected to the speakers. I couldn't afford a decent
stereo after I bought the speakers, so this would have to do for
now.

I hit PLAY.
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# ### # # # # #############

Then I was ripped into little bits by the audio waves, as my
apartment building collapsed in on itself with the first non-
nuclear implosion in the history of man.

I think the bass was a little off.

*

I pushed aside a few bricks, clawing my way to the surface.

Someone threw a spotlight on me, temporarily blinding my
eyes. I could hear shouts, sirens, helicopters, confusion...

Boy, that's a lot of fire trucks. And a lot of squad cars
and reporters. I guess the building was a spectacular wreck.

I walked out, as the crowd of onlookers formed quite a lot
of space around me.