“Where do I begin?” wondered Chrome McCloud. “I have been tasked with the impossible mission of saving the world.”
In front of him stood the mostly ruins of the twenty-first century’s greatest monopoly: Amazon. All that remained intact were several thousand boxes of self-published novelettes and shelf after shelf of dusty cans of insect repellent. But somewhere amongst all this was the algorithm that would resurrect the Amazon Empire! Chrome McCloud simply had to find it.
It was an impossible commission. “Damn it!” thought Chrome. He pressed a button and ran. He knew he had only five minutes to escape. Minutes later there was a massive explosion. Chrome had done the opposite to what he had set out to do. He had changed his mind. There would be no more algorithm. It was forever destroyed. Amazon would become simply a forgotten memory. He had saved the world!
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