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By: ARTHUR HOWE Science fiction  One second, King was standing
smiling and applauding the crowd, and the next second, a big,
black, dot appeared in his forehead. King twitched, smiled a
nervous sort of smile, and then collapsed in a heap behind the
podium.  Submitted:May 17, 2007    Reads: 105    Comments: 1   
Likes: 0     It would be almost twenty years to the day, from
the end of the Big War of 2008, until noon today, when the Free
Earth Day ceremony would be held in Harare.  Harare had been
chosen unanimously, as the most suitable choice of venues, it
being a widely held belief, that the Origin of Man was somewhere
in this region. This re-birth would also come to be known as the
Second Origin - Free Earth Day.  Harare had also been largely
unaffected by the fall-out that drifted around the globe for
many months.  John had lived through the worst of times,
including the Big War and more than anything else, lived with
the hope that he would see t