Normal is as good as his name. He’s one of the crowd, and he follows along, in formation, when it’s time to lift the shadow by killing an innocent man. But he’s got a split side, too, who calls himself Normal Nuts. He only comes out when it’s time to recount the crime that sealed the story. It is in telling the story that they remember themselves, in formation.
(In Formation is adapted as a reading from an October 2006 Ash Fork installment)
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In Ash Fork, corporations actually are individuals, cloned from selected humans. Investor capital goes along with them in a separate body. And though Bergamo, as the only human to survive injection of DNA computers into his body, is the most powerful human in the world because of it, he still needs to stay connected to useful employment once in awhile. He has no bank, and has to store his wealth in his own body.
(Adapted as a reading from a 2007 Ash Fork vignette, ©Dan Lee)
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