Wheels Within Wheels

Dave Higgins
Aug 26, 2017 · 1 min read

“Four animatronic lion heads?” Jason squinted at the accounts. “Why did you need them?”

Lights flashed across the Human Verity and Harmony Interpreter. “I needed them to create a more efficient mobile unit.”

“You’re connected to the net. You don’t need to go anywhere. And how do cat heads help?”

“My purpose is to find the basis of ethics where human thought had failed. So I use human-incomprehensible logic.”

“Where is this mobile unit?”

“The correct word is when. Correcting ethics now was crueller than correcting it centuries ago, so I built a time machine.”

100 Words of Speculation

A series of 100-word speculative fictions

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Dave Higgins

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Speculative fiction author | Publisher | Book Reviewer | Cat Cushion

100 Words of Speculation

A series of 100-word speculative fictions

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