234,438¥ (Chapter 5 of 38)

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12/10/24 • 41 min

Gil has a few people at his house for the first time since Amy died. It's his grandson's friends, but company is company. Anything is better than the silence and boredom. But it's not until he hops into the virtual world of Yi with them that he realizes what he has been missing all these years. "Video games" have come a long way. Bang!

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If I Had a Million - 234,438¥ (Chapter 5 of 38)

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That Friday I picked up my grandson and his three friends, Isaac, Mabelle, and Francis, at around 6 pm. As we drove back to the house I got a kick out of listening to them talk.

“I just finished an old book I found,” Park was telling his friends. “It’s called 1984.”

“The 80s looked so cool,” Mabelle said.

It did? Big hair and square cars?

“It wasn’t really about the ’80s though,” Park said. “I think it was written in the 1940s. It was a futuri