Inherit the Earth

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Damon Hart never found it easy to get three boxes of groceries from the trunk of his car to his thirteenth floor apartment; it was a logistical problem with no easy solution, given that both his parking-slot and his apartment door were so far from the elevator. Some day, he supposed, he would have to invest in a collapsible electric cart, but such a purchase still seemed like another step in the long march to conformism—perhaps the one which would finally seal his fate.

By the time he opened the apartment door he felt distinctly ragged. He could have done without the carving-knife that slammed into the doorjamb ten centimeters away from his ducking head and stuck there, quivering.

“You bastard!” Diana said, rushing forward to meet him.

It didn’t take much imagination to figure out what had offended her so deeply. He should have tidied the work away, concealing it behind some gnomic password.

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