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That’s What Fiends Are For

That’s What Fiends Are For
By
Li von Garske

Historical Note:
This happened in the early I980’s. There was NO INTERNET, NO WORLD WIDE WEB.  Home computers had 64k or I28K. NONE had megabytes, or higher. To reach another state, one had to use a special MODEM on the phone and pay for the long-distance call.

Something about the author:
The author was a fan of computer animation, and of video, and therefore despised such perversions of the art as MTV and The Simpsons.  This off-beat author was inclined to spend a good deal of time underwater along the Kona coast, hobnobbing with creatures far stronger than any you’d meet at the Star Wars Cantina.

I say WAS because while downloading some old language tapes, there was an accidental incantation and nothing has been the same since.  But read on, you’ll see what I mean.
Ed

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SMALL CHANGE

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DEPT: Creative Writing: Honolulu Mid 80s: EvG
Small Change

Honolulu is not very experienced at being a “Metropolis” as yet.  She numbers her people in the hundreds of thousands rather than the millions.  Although it has been the islands capital for a century, Honolulu flows about the valleys between the sea and the mountains in true tropical lassitude.  Like water seeking its own level, the city splashes against the hills but does not engulf them.  All the urban area is concentrated in the narrow belt between hills and sea.  Within this matrix, even four-lane, one-way highways can become the scene of frantic congestion in the rush hours of the working day.
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