Bizarre. Sort of reads like a manifesto from a totalitarian parallel universe where electricity led to World War I. The punctuation and capitalization stuff was kind of distracting, but that seemed to be the point maybe.

I was originally going to submit this for the Technobabble challenge, but it ended up as something from another project I was sort of working on. It’s basically a quirky alternate universe/post-post-post-apocalyptic world populated by robots, who relive the history of humanity up until they discover electricity—which is seen as HOLY CRAP MAGIC.

I’ve noticed a very ridiculous capitalization scheme from some of the Victorian/pseudo-Victorian writings I’ve read—I hoped to recreate the oddness of it here.

I really really dig this

it has its own internal logic and you stick to it like glue

very good

I echo the comments above. Very true to itself.

I liked it although it seems to read as apocrypha rather than story.

Orsen Scott Card did a whole series on a parallel America where Ben Franklin was thought to be Gandalf. Pretty interesting

Holy crap. Ben Franklin, a wizard? This makes too much sense. Could you tell me the name of that thing so I may humiliate myself?