1. Offering What You Desire. A Limited Time Sale!


    Date: 7/22/2015, Categories: Fantasy & Sci-Fi, Author: botbot, Rating: 0, Source: LushStories

    as you call it, lets us acknowledge this and see what our pre-programing is, what our true desires may be, if you will.” He wrote something else down on his sheet of paper. “You see at the Irving Institute we believe free will is nothing more than pre-programmed thought. A reaction that our mind controls and…” “We’re just along for the ride?” Jane interjects. The man nods sympathetically, “Essentially, yes. And now that we know this, as demonstrated by our neuroscience team and their ability founded in research and technology, we can dispatch with the banter of philosophy on the subject.” He waved his hand dismissively. “You both came here wanting to know that if faced with temptation that you could remain true to each other.” Jane and Oliver just stared back in wonderment, looking like children in an advanced physics class. “The sedation and artificial reality you underwent left you with an environment that your brain could not tell was an illusion, and I’m sure there is a part of you that still thinks I’m lying, due to how realistic the experience was. After all, you were asleep for two days, fed intravenously before it even began. But I assure you that each of you was put through a test to see if your faithfulness to one another would falter. It is a test that is based on the mapping of your brain, interviews with our specialists and a study of your habits. It was conceived to produce maximum results based on a situation which would examine those vows you made to your ...
    mate.” “But neither of us remembers signing up for this,” Oliver said. "And in a few days the clouds will be lifted, that’s a normal part of the process; your memory will come flooding back and in patches you’ll remember seeing our ads and coming into our office to see if what you heard about us was true." Oliver took a drink of the water sitting in front of him, “So talking to you after the fake reality we just went through it part of the process too?” “Absolutely, and we now can lay out a definite plan that will strip your mind of these cravings and render you both hopelessly monogamous.” As they all rise from the conference table Graydon pulls Jane aside. “Oliver, may I correspond with you wife? It seems we need a little more clarification about her medical history, would that be tolerable for you?” Oliver agreed leaving the spacious meeting room complete with its abstract art and stainless steel trimmings. “Jane, if you could have a seat.” Graydon sat too and folded his arms staring at her as if waiting for a confession to occur. “We know who that man is, the one you had an affair with in the simulated area. He’s the same man you have been having an affair with even before entering the simulated reality.” Jane looked confused as her face tightened at the statement made by Graydon. “Jane, he’s the proprietor of everything you see here and much more. And I’m afraid that getting into the heads of people has made him a lot of enemies in the government, enemies that would not ...
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