What Could Possibly Go Wrong Novels & Stories

"Exactly," Raven said, pulling a specialized wrench from his belt. "It’s a resonance issue. It’s not dangerous yet, but if you leave it, the system will eventually over-correct and shut the whole line down. That’s what happened two days ago. The machines are trying too hard to be perfect. Sometimes, you have to loosen the bolts just a fraction to give them room to breathe."

"So the project will fail?" "Not immediately," Herod said, a thin smile appearing. "The system will operate perfectly during the demonstration and initial testing. The flaws will only manifest under full load conditions, approximately six to eight weeks after installation." "And when it fails?" "Catastrophically." He took the tablet back. "Not dangerous to human life, I'm not that reckless, but catastrophic from a business perspective. Complete system failure across multiple cities simultaneously. Hundreds of millions in damages. Stock collapse. Regulatory investigations."

One misplaced action would cause everything to collapse. And this time I couldn't afford to miss it.

"It all sounds good Dad, but what would happen if something went wrong? Suppose he couldn't keep up the loan payments on that land, for example?" "There are ways of protecting yourself against that sort of thing, son."

I need a back up plan in case things go wrong. "Stop worrying." Micheal said, placing his index finger on my furrowed brows. "Everything is going to go as planned. We've trained, we've tested. We got the element of surprise." It was like he was reading my mind. "I can't help it. I mean what if something goes wrong with the devices, or they stop working? We'll be sitting ducks." I stared into his deep blue eyes, wanting comfort.

My eyes narrowed as I think of a possibility why we couldn't get anything about the virus, and I wasn't aware I was thinking it out loud. "What if we're doing it wrong?" All of them look at me, confused. "What do you mean we're doing it wrong?" Georgina prompt me to say more. "Uhm, this just came into my mind actually. But yea, come to think of it, all of our equipments are working well and has been developed to its finest. And it seems impossible not to get anything about the virus despite having these equipments. So what if we are doing it in the wrong way? I don't know, this idea of mine is hard to explain." I sigh.

This wasn’t my normal life, nor would it be. What was going to go wrong?

Planting federal bugs. One mistake away from execution.

"This might be a problem." End of Chapter 28

Then I did what any sane person does at six-thirty in the morning after agreeing to a year-long con: I made coffee and panic-listed. THINGS THAT COULD GO WRONG 1. My mother cries when she finds out (because she will find out) 2. Peter smells blood in the water and never lets it go 3. Jackson is secretly married/a cult leader/allergic to commitment 4. I develop actual feelings and ruin everything 5. He develops actual feelings and ruins everything 6. We both develop feelings and it becomes the messiest breakup in family history 7. Someone googles him and discovers something awful 8. Someone googles me and discovers I once wrote erotica under a pen name for rent money (long story)