The Shattered Lens

Charlie gets much more than he bargained for when he breaks into a house across the street from a construction project he's working on. All he is looking for is some drugs to carry on his dependency, but he finds that sometimes dangers lurk where you least expect them.A SHORT STORY: With extra bonus chapter from "The Steel Van Man"Derry Brown looks through an otherworldly lens. In Derry's warped sense of reality, a mundane architectural review takes place in a bleak future ruled by high-tech racing. With the executive assistant protesting the race sponsors in the hallway, and a spectacular crash taking place between a marker and an eraser on his whiteboard, Derry has to try to maintain his sanity long enough to ask the most important question: Is spending money on this code change worth saving twelve cents?Start your engines, it's meeting time.