After Dinner Mint
The meetings are scheduled no less then a month in advance to accommodate the participants itineraries. Never for later the same day. The group usually meet…
United We Fall
In a New York hotel suite, late at night a United Nations ambassador sleeps. The only sound is the winds clashing with the skyscraper which is joined by a…
The Fountain of Controversy
Thank you for joining us. My guest today is Olivia Musser, CEO of Sandlot Ventures. Welcome to the show Mrs, Musser. The pleasure is mine Laurie. _This week…
Two Hundred
The guard was quickly knocked out while I took the droid out of commission with the sabretaser. The jolt threw the droid into diagnostic mode, which only…
Chamber
As we made progress through the tunnel, we could just barely make out the faint clatter and thud of the sewer door closing. We came out the pipe when it…
Radio Armenia
“Radio Armenia,” Acrylic breathed, his voice quiet in wonder. Terminal screens and blinking lights were clustered in the side room. Too many cables to count…
Walla Walla
“In forty-five minutes,” continued C:\, “a group of us is going to gather up everything that they need and is going to break into MegaCorp Headquarters. They…
Backdoor
“What?” C:\ asked, incredulously voicing the question the rest of us were asking internally. “The building schematics were in a relatively unprotected location…
Plans
“This,” C:\ declared, “is the War Room.” “It’s a maintenance closet,” Shortcut interrupted. “This,” C:\ reïterated, “is the War Room. Virus, the plans.” Virus…
…Wait for It…
“A virtual curtain had inadvertently been revoked,” Acrylic explained, “and I seized the opportunity to ambulate around the inner workings of the MegaCorp…
We Now Interrupt Your Regularly-Scheduled Programming…Sort Of
I pushed past Hard Drive, Acrylic and Fetus in tow, and quickly made my way into the short corridor that led to the Council Room. The thick, rectangular metal…
Toys
If we were going to pull this job off, we were going to need help; namely, two specific kinds of help: Tech support and weapons support. I’d mentioned that I…
You In?
“The last time anybody tried to break into MegaCorp HQ,” Fetus dryly informed us in her creepy, even monotone, “it was the TLF versus the corporate goons.”…
Harvest
“In our combined forays into the labyrinth that is the MegaCorp mainframe,” Acrylic recounted, “we were successfully able to pilfer the details of…
Lethologica
“Project Lethologica,” Acrylic breathed. “My parents owed MegaCorp a debt that couldn’t be repaid on the corporation’s time,” Fetus continued. Her continued…
Failure
Acrylic drank deeply from the faded mug. The decal, which read “MORAL CODE” along with some lines of programming language, was highly scratched. “The…
An Abridged Biography
Acrylic took a deep breath. “Some time ago, MegaCorp executed a new research program into neurocomputational interfaces, ostensibly for the enhancement and…
An Endeavor
The first thing I noticed about Fetus when we exited through the side door was how impossibly pale she was, especially considering how strong the UV rays given…
Gestation
The ship displayed itself on all of the Jumbotrons and all of the network screens within a thirty-meter radius or so. The disruption was noticed, and most…
Food for Thought
“So I’ve got two questions,” I began, between bites of the chow-mein-and-pepperoni pizza that Acrylic had bought for us. The blue and pink neon lights of the…