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Worthless - a short story by Greg Egan

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The song says, 'You're worthless. Your pain mean nothing at all.' But in the 21st century your pain -- and the wires in your head -- drives the music business.

Worthless - a short story by Greg Egan Worthless a short story by Greg Egan Y es, I'm complacent now, with my well enough paid job, with a wife I can almost talk to, with a three-year-old son all dark eyes and tousled hair and endearing clumsiness. We go driving on Sunday afternoons, through suburbs just like our own, past houses just like our own, an endlessly recurring, mesmerising daydream under the flawless blue sky. And I whistle an old song of yours, even if I never dare let the words past my lips: There's nothing wrong with The Family That a flame-thrower can't fix And there's nothing w

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