We have a two-way tie!
The stories:
The Colour Of My Days (by mosaix)
Starting to wear off now. Time to choose today’s reality. Today’s drug. Today’s pill. Yellow, white, blue? Which nanobot swarm to let loose? Uppers, downers, psychedelics?
Anna, lying beside me, watches and waits. She’s wonderful – beautiful, loving, funny, intelligent, but most of all she understands me – a crutch in my chemically-induced life.
I turn towards her. “You choose.”
“Blue,” she whispers with a smile.
She always says blue; she’s only ever here on blue days.
Jacked. Hacked. Cracked. (by The Judge)
Wannabe cracker looking for the big one – wet-ware hacker job, no probs, all fun. Low rent whacker-man took him with a neur-gun.
Med teams lined up; brain-net opened up; surgeons fixed him up.
His cortex gyral, got hit – viral. Downwards spiral.
More tech. Triple deck.
Train wreck.
Surgical daring; pallium tearing.
Synaptic wiring; nothing firing.
Experiments tried. Axons died. Brain deep-fried.
Started human. Medics said “New man.”
Ended dead man.
The usual rules apply:
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The stories:
The Colour Of My Days (by mosaix)
Starting to wear off now. Time to choose today’s reality. Today’s drug. Today’s pill. Yellow, white, blue? Which nanobot swarm to let loose? Uppers, downers, psychedelics?
Anna, lying beside me, watches and waits. She’s wonderful – beautiful, loving, funny, intelligent, but most of all she understands me – a crutch in my chemically-induced life.
I turn towards her. “You choose.”
“Blue,” she whispers with a smile.
She always says blue; she’s only ever here on blue days.
Jacked. Hacked. Cracked. (by The Judge)
Wannabe cracker looking for the big one – wet-ware hacker job, no probs, all fun. Low rent whacker-man took him with a neur-gun.
Med teams lined up; brain-net opened up; surgeons fixed him up.
His cortex gyral, got hit – viral. Downwards spiral.
More tech. Triple deck.
Train wreck.
Surgical daring; pallium tearing.
Synaptic wiring; nothing firing.
Experiments tried. Axons died. Brain deep-fried.
Started human. Medics said “New man.”
Ended dead man.
The usual rules apply:
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Each member may cast one vote only
You may not vote for yourself
The winner of the poll will choose the theme and genre for December
The poll will close at 11:59pm GMT on January 30 2013
The poll will close at 11:59pm GMT on January 30 2013
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