Flatpack

Everything is flatpack.
My life is flatpack, annoyingly I find that I need a screwdriver, when the instructions did not state that fact. Unable to assemble. Left like a strange religious artefact celebrating my inability to get things done. How can I do anything when my life is incomplete?
My universe is flatpack, many pieces, no instructions. After unwrapping, and the pieces are strewn all over the living room floor, I stare at them, and try to imagine something whole. My universe is missing physics that will make it understandable.
My words are flatpack, constructed from a database, run through an algorithm analysing my usage. A hundred stories decompiled, a neural net painstakingly trained, a story that still does not make sense despite a trillion petaflops.
My flatpack is flatpack. Packed flat. Flat. Packed.
- Recompile?
- Y
Everything is flatpack.
My existence is flatpack, I am not real.

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James Bloomer has a PhD in particle physics (he worked at CERN) and has probably forgotten more physics than most people ever learn. He has been running the Science Fiction blog Big Dumb Object since 2004 and writing Science Fiction for more...

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