Prayer.exe
I bend my head forward and pray at the altar of technology, The screen casting its heavenly glow upon my face Its gentle beams-the product of brave men and…
Developing History
“For centuries, the documentation of history was left to unreliable machines and worse: The human memory.” The guide gestured to a glass case of microphones…
Security Vulnerabilities
“Cyber-Bullied Teen Takes Own Life” — we’ve all seen this headline, a hundred times, in a hundred variations. A community mourns, a vigil is held, a distraught…
Glare
He worked late, most days, and finished early. He finished a full night of work by the time his landlady was banging the trash cans in the morning. It didn’t…
Continuance
Here’s how it works. I get an order of some kind. Maybe I need to find someone who’s been making threats against the president. Maybe I snoop into a Grand…
Instant Message
Tapping away at the keyboard, Frankie tried to pretend she was working while she eavesdropped on an IM conversation coming from the next cubicle. It wasn’t…
Addiction
I can resist the siren call. I know I can. But from the glowing box, it calls to me, asking me to gaze upon its contents. To see flowing script and the…
Where Would You Like To Go Today?
I’ve used any number of internal computer systems before, all with silly acronym names. Names like SABS, or SMS, or SAP, and so on. This system had a similar…
What happened that night(5)
Chuck Craven watched as the boy gazed intently at the computer.” Not long now,” the boy whispered. Suddenly the lights started flickering. The boys face lit…
Who?
The book laid open on the pedestal. With each death another letter scratched itself onto the pages.