Playing Safe

[ffutures]

Here's the second story I wrote for the Midnight Rose Collective back in 1992, from the shared world anthology Eurotemps. It's set in the Temps world, in which there have always been Paranorms, people with abnormal powers. In Eurotemps an important theme was the problems that might arise if Britain had to harmonise its policies on Paranorms with Europe. At the time the EC was more commonly known as the EEC, and since this is a period piece I'm leaving that unchanged.

Playing Safe

For more on the Temps world see the introduction to the story I uploaded a couple of weeks ago,
Frog Day Afternoon

I'd appreciate comments on anything that looks like a typo, OCR error, etc., before I add links to it on my site.

Comments

[dsample.livejournal.com]

Another fun story. I liked the quick reference to Frog Day Afternoon. I spotted a few errors from the OCR though:

> we can undoubtedly manage with our ownresources.
missing space between "own" and "resources."

> Mr Dolby saidhe wanted to see you in his office, as soon as you cam in.
-- missing space between "said" and "he."
-- missing 'e' on "cam."

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Thanks! Yet another reminder of why it really isn't a good idea for me to do these things at the end of the evening on a working day...

[ggreig]

The Eureaocrats

Eurocrats

they'd show him picking up a car

they'd shown him...

CNN new service logo on the sides

CNN news service...

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Thanks! Think I must have lost a couple of letters next to the right hand margin on a couple of pages, judging by the errors that have been pointed out. I'll have to work out which pages were affected and re-check them. Damned if I know why I didn't spot the Eurocrat thing, it probably came up as an error when I spell checked. Ah, the joys of doing this stuff when I'm minus on sleep...