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I'm not going to keep commenting on how good individual stories are, unless the completely blow me away, so just sticking to the comments themselves, as we seem to have reached the stage where all the stories are so universally excellent that it seems redundant to keep picking stories out and then realising I've not said the same on others!
(If that makes any sense, I still have Christmas brain)
Springs – Love can always be one of the most powerful and driving of emotions. Waiting, searching for years just to extract revenge on one who spurned you, or both of you in this case. But of course there has to be a twist and in this case it seems to be the fact that the duo believe it is because they are mutants. Of course the fact that they were called fake might be nothing to do with what they are...
Aber – I see this one as a snapshot of a future time, where things are so much different and yet the same, friendships interspersed with hi-tech. Where one friend can allow the other warning at an impending arrest, and that escape is a different kettle of fish. A new identity in seconds and away. Clearly thought out and well presented.
Alc. – I felt there was something almost seedy in the opening of this gritty little tale, young girls selling themselves through future technology, allowing men to interface with them, giving virtual memories or experiences. Of course there is going to be more to it and the sting in the tale here is that it’s a trap. An overload of sensation is easier and as effective as a taser, and another dangerous potential scumbag is off the street.
ratsy – Quite an interesting story is offered here. At first it seems as though the man is a revolutionary and that he is about to change the world with a single keystroke, but we learn he is not going to press the button, perhaps the one that will let the genuine vote shine through. Instead he remains the tyrant (or something like that) allowing his comfort to assuage any guilt he might feel.
Juelz – I wondered where we were going when I started this one. Was it going to be some creepy old man in a innocents bedroom? In many ways it was, but not in the way imagined, instead we see the days of the human race coming to an end as the last human is irrevocably altered. But was it for their own good, or an act of misguided malice?
(If that makes any sense, I still have Christmas brain)
Springs – Love can always be one of the most powerful and driving of emotions. Waiting, searching for years just to extract revenge on one who spurned you, or both of you in this case. But of course there has to be a twist and in this case it seems to be the fact that the duo believe it is because they are mutants. Of course the fact that they were called fake might be nothing to do with what they are...
Aber – I see this one as a snapshot of a future time, where things are so much different and yet the same, friendships interspersed with hi-tech. Where one friend can allow the other warning at an impending arrest, and that escape is a different kettle of fish. A new identity in seconds and away. Clearly thought out and well presented.
Alc. – I felt there was something almost seedy in the opening of this gritty little tale, young girls selling themselves through future technology, allowing men to interface with them, giving virtual memories or experiences. Of course there is going to be more to it and the sting in the tale here is that it’s a trap. An overload of sensation is easier and as effective as a taser, and another dangerous potential scumbag is off the street.
ratsy – Quite an interesting story is offered here. At first it seems as though the man is a revolutionary and that he is about to change the world with a single keystroke, but we learn he is not going to press the button, perhaps the one that will let the genuine vote shine through. Instead he remains the tyrant (or something like that) allowing his comfort to assuage any guilt he might feel.
Juelz – I wondered where we were going when I started this one. Was it going to be some creepy old man in a innocents bedroom? In many ways it was, but not in the way imagined, instead we see the days of the human race coming to an end as the last human is irrevocably altered. But was it for their own good, or an act of misguided malice?
