Rolling Suitcase Jihad
In the not-too-distant future, a tech giant called The Company invents an intelligence capable of giving and executing orders and creating real
structures from printouts. The revolutionary software is kept in ten plastic rolling suitcases. Sequestered in Santa Rosa, California, Tammy and Oscar guard them. But soon Tammy, Oscar and the suitcases are off to change the world. They live in most acclaimed penthouse in Manhattan. They disarm military establishments. They introduce Basic Income. They create car-free cities. And they prevail, arguing that these things would happen anyway if we had access to all the information in the world and acted on it with care and intelligence.
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Previously on Rolling Suitcase Jihad: Tammy and Oscar discover that rolling suitcases have a mind of their own; led by…medium.com
Previously on Rolling Suitcase Jihad: A bus-like floating vehicle swishes the ten rolling suitcases to Manhattan; in…medium.com
Previously on Rolling Suitcase Jihad. The three-story penthouse of the Candela-designed building on Park Avenue is…medium.com
Previously on Plastic Suitcase Jihad. The Inventor is introduced; a large crowd surrounds a strange, stadium-like…medium.com
Previously on Rolling Suitcase Jihad. The Facebook Times swings into action; Oscar buys a shirt with Basic Income…medium.com
Previously on Rolling Suitcase Jihad: Tammy and Oscar become more involved with the Facebook Times; protest builds…medium.com
Previously on Rolling Suitcase Jihad: Tammy and Oscar learn that the Suitcases are essentially human, that they die…medium.com
This fiction was written by Stephen C. Rose. He has written a number of books(Fiction/Non-fiction). You can tweet him here.
For more of Stephen C.Rose’s fiction visit Everything Comes.
Here’s one of his books.
The Last Drop is a novella set in the future. Oil is no more. What is left is too expensive to extract. Global economies have completely tanked. Dusty is the protagonist of this tale. She walks from Vermont to New York City and we learn who she is and what her destiny will be.
