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'CD STACK'

THIRD EDITION

YOU MAY RECALL THAT 'CD STACK' WAS AN INTERPLANETARY PILOT--REGARDED AS ONE OF THE MOST SKILLED AND A RISK TAKER--HE AND HIS WIFE 'MONITOR' HAD BECOME VERY WEALTHY IN THIS ENDEAVOUR--

CD OF COURSE HAD A DISTANCE RESTRICTION--HIS SHIP 'CHIP' HAD LIMITED RANGE TO THE POINT WHERE IT COULD SAFELY RETURN HOME TO THE PLANET 'HACKER'--THUS AN IMAGINARY SPHERE AROUND THE PLANET HACKER---CD AND HIS WIFE 'MONITOR' WERE ON A MISSION -MOVING THROUGH SPACE VERY NEAR TO THE EDGE OF THIS IMAGINARY SPHERE--SUDDENLY CD SAW ON HIS RADAR SCREEN A PLANET JUST INSIDE THIS SPHERE LIMIT--ONE THAT HE HAD NEVER SEEN BEFORE--CD ADJUSTED HIS RADIO FREQUENCY TO PICK UP ANY TRANSMISSION FROM THIS STRANGE PLANET--SOMEONE ON THE PLANET WAS SPEAKING TO HIM IN A LANGUAGE HE COULD NOT UNDERSTAND--THROUGH HIS LANGUAGE INTERPRETER DEVICE-HE COULD SPEAK TO THEM--

THE UNKNOWN PLANET ASKED CD TO RECORD THEIR MESSAGE--THEY HAD HEARD OF CD AND THE FACT THAT HE WAS SPECIAL AND TRUSTWORTHY--THE MESSAGE WOULD BE ABOUT ONE HOUR LONG AND HE MUST NOT LET ANYONE ELSE HEAR THIS MESSAGE--IT WOULD BE UP TO HIS JUDGEMENT AS TO WHAT TO DO WITH THE MESSAGE--

CD RECORDED THE MESSAGE AND DID NOT LET HIS WIFE HEAR IT--CD AND HIS WIFE MONITOR HAD DECIDED TO SPEND THE REST OF THEIR LIVES TRYING TO HELP ALL PLANETS TO HAVE A BETTER AND LESS SUFFERING EXISTENCE--AFTER HEARING THIS RECORDED MESSAGE--CD KNEW HE COULD NOT REVEAL IT TO ANYONE--IT WOULD DO JUST THE OPPOSITE TO EVERYONE THAT HE DESIRED--WITH VERY LITTLE HESITATION--CD PUT THE RECORDED MESSAGE MICRO-CHIP - INTO THE SHREDDING MACHINE--

CD INFORMED HIS WIFE MONITOR THAT HE HAD JUST NOW DECIDED TO RETIRE AND THAT THEY WERE HEADED BACK TO HOME PLANET 'HACKER-

A TROUBLED CD WAS NOW AT HIS HOME AND WITH A TROUBLED MIND--HE HAD TO KEEP WHAT HE HAD LEARNED FROM THE STRANGE PLANET A COMPLETE SECRET---HE NOW UNDERSTOOD WHY THE PLANETS WERE KEPT IN MYSTERY ABOUT THEIR REALITY--

THIS INFORMATION CD NOW HAD - WOULD SURELY SHORTEN HIS LIFE BECAUSE THE INFORMATION WAS SO HORRIBLE AND UNSUSPECTED---HIS MIND SUFFERED CONTINUALLY--

BY OTIS ENGLISH