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Reduced by Kris P. Kreme<\/p><\/div>
\nRecycled introduced us to the Recyclatron 3000, a highly advanced processing machine of the not too distant future which could make anything into anything else, and ended up making one unfortunate girl a real doll of a person. <\/p>\n

ReUsed showed that the Recyclatron 3000 could make Halloween costumes more extreme than ever, just temporary… unless the costume was too extreme.<\/p>\n

Now in Reduced, we meet Ashley, a responsible girl merely stopping by on the way with her friends to a yearly event, dropping off some cans. When her shirt is snagged by the machine, a lot more may be reduced than her recyclables.<\/p>\n

Readers Choice Month gives new meaning to environ-mental.<\/p>\n

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In the not too distant future one machine revolutionized cleaning up the planet, making the world better, and brought recycling into the forefront of fun ways to do better for the environment. Unfortunately that machine, the Recyclatron 3000 occasionally caused some unwanted transformations and quite permanent changes due to the nature of those who used it.<\/p>\n

Allowing for any material to be recycled into any other product of a user’s choice, the Recyclatron was a big hit, and it offered a whole new degree of power to reduce waste… but like all power it could easily be misused and soon was, whether on purpose or on accident.<\/p>\n

Fortunately though, the Recyclatron was recognized for the danger is was after a certain couple suffered permanent changes the world would never forget and so the recycling center had shut down all Recyclatron 3000s in use… or so Ashley and her friends Wally and Zack had been led to believe.<\/p>\n

Ashley has always had a passion none of her friends could understand, and definitely not one most guys she was around appreciated. Collecting trash and constantly going by the recycling center, her friends Wally and Zack are worried her insistence on stopping by to let her drop off a giant bag of cans will make them late for the Holo-shark spectacular down at the marina. After all Shark Week is starting and there’s nothing better than Shark Week, certainly nothing Wally and Zack care about more.<\/p>\n

And while Ashley couldn’t care much less about the whole Holo-shark event, or the famed beginning of the event where the holo-shark attacks the audience, who is she to question anyone’s passions?<\/p>\n

But it seems pretty much the entire recycling center has cleared out, everyone down at the marina for the Holo-shark spectacular, everyone but the lone janitor cleaning one of the halls. Fortunately he helps Ashley figure out where to process her cans for recycling… and surprise surprise, it’s none-other-than the Recyclatron 3000.<\/p>\n

Thankfully the recycling center only shut the machines down to install secure safety mechanisms, making sure no one accidentally can fall into the machine as happened several times in the past, with unexpected and often entertaining results.<\/p>\n

All Ashley has to do is place the giant bag of cans in the machine, then step back while new heavy metal safety claws snap shut over the opening for processing to begin. But when the machine doesn’t seem to start processing right away, Ashley makes the impatient mistake of kicking the machine while standing just a bit too close. <\/p>\n

The metal claws miss her, but snag on the front of her shirt, and as processing begins, she unfortunately finds herself rather forcefully yanked off her feet, smacked again and again against the front of the Recyclatron 3000.<\/p>\n

But nothing bad could happen other than a bruise or two and a snagged torn shirt, right? After all, they implemented all new safety features just to prevent such injuries.<\/p>\n

Find out if a passion for doing the responsible thing can somehow lead to truly twisted passions for doing everything wrong. Find out what can be reduced when snagged on the Recyclatron 3000 and taken for a bit of a bumpy ride. And find out if Wally and Zack ever get to the Holo-shark spectacular down at the marina, or if they finally find something even more exciting than Shark Week to enjoy this year!<\/p>\n

Readers Choice Month reminds readers to always be responsible, unless those responsible parts of your thinking are somehow thoroughly Reduced.<\/p>\n

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Koming next… This isn’t summer school…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Recycled introduced us to the Recyclatron 3000, a highly advanced processing machine of the not too distant future which could make anything into anything else, and ended up making one unfortunate girl a real doll of a person. ReUsed showed that the Recyclatron 3000 could make Halloween costumes more extreme than ever, just temporary… unless … <\/p>\n

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