Unintended Consequences

#fiction #fav &#xA; She hadn't always planned to eliminate all life in the galaxy. No one had, really, except crackpots too far from the keys of power to make their ideas reality --- the keys she now held in the sweaty palm of her hand. &#xA; The alternatives used to seem plausible: before they had abolished death, before they had engineered away pain, before they had gently sent all the…