Futures : A hypertext short story

4B: Abundance

Michael Darnby could see the white corners of his sheet of graph paper. The rest was hidden under a veritable blue mountain. He had hit the jackpot.
   At some moment during his slide into sleep, he told himself, trying to rationalize the incredible, his conscious and subconscious minds had joined forces with the psionic amplifier. The weird trio had hit on the exact frequency necessary to trawl the best part of one hundred lost five-pound notes out of their hiding places.
   It was a daft sort of explanation, but who cared? The reality of the heap of paper on his dining table was a slap in the eye for the sceptical part of him that still considered the idea of psionic treasure-trawling to be ridiculous nonsense.
   Bubbling with endless, gloating glee, Darnby sat down to count his trawled haul...

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