Holes, Incorporated

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Holes, Incorporated

by L. Major Reynolds

EN·~11 minutes·1 chapter

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11:18

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A pair of modest inventors walks into a corporate office with a mysterious steel box that creates instant, invisible passages through what they call “the fourth dimension.” Their demo—turning a harmless pencil into a floating, immovable fragment—leaves the seasoned executive both astonished and uneasy, hinting at a technology that could rewrite construction, repair, and perhaps even reality itself. The scene bristles with practical curiosity, quick‑witted banter, and the unsettling feeling that a simple breakthrough might be far more powerful—and more dangerous—than anyone imagined.

As the executives scramble to assess the device’s worth, the inventors must decide whether to protect their fledgling creation or surrender it to the corporate machine that promises wealth and exposure. Early tensions raise questions about ethics, ambition, and what it means to wield a tool that can erase matter from one world and write it into another, setting the stage for a high‑stakes clash between ingenuity and greed.

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Language

en

Duration

~11 minutes (10K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Credits

Produced by Greg Weeks, Stephen Blundell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net

Release date

Nov 13, 2009

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

About the author

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L. Major Reynolds

A science-fiction writer tied to mid-century fandom, this author published inventive short fiction under a memorable pen name. The surviving record is patchy, but her stories and club connections give a glimpse of a lively pulp-era career.

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