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GPS — Oracle
A winter rom-com about a lanky scientist, a missing ushanka, and two furry navigators executing a fatal system error in the name of love
Author’s Note: A winter comedy about technical minds, frozen park benches, and the way life completely rewrites our rigid, plastic expectations. Dedicated to the quiet, furry navigators who always know the destination before we do.
Robert, a junior research fellow, finally dragged himself back to consciousness late in the morning. His head throbbed with a vicious resonance, as if someone were running unsuccessful blast tests directly behind his skull. His eyes were swollen slits. His legs felt like poured concrete, and his lower back was screaming for immediate, unconditional capitulation. Disentangling himself from the sheets, he made a blind, heavy-footed trek toward the kitchen.
The short trip quickly devolved into a full-scale domestic disaster. First, he caught his foot on a bloated trash bag squatting dead in the center of the floor. Off-balance, his hip slammed into the corner of a table that groaned under mountains of crusty, unwashed dishes. To make matters worse, his face plowed straight into a tangle of party streamers hanging from the chandelier. Thrashing in pure annoyance to tear himself free from the paper trap, his elbow clipped a tray of silverware. The whole thing flipped. The cutlery hit the parquet with a…
