Saturday, July 24, 2010

flash fiction-fashionistaSciFi "The Outpost"


    Once he is away from the lab, crunching all the data possible, Cooper says to Carter,"These new findings are pure conjecture. The research is too low key. We've got to find the bug and get the newE.A.R.T.H.E.R. code up and running. We should have done it yesterday."
     "Well, now," Carter says, picking up on Cooper's mistrust of Suzi. "She'll be glad to see you won't she."
     Cooper ponders the new developments, which are distasteful but not overblown to his mind."I hate this," he says. "She was a beautiful design."
     Carter smiles unconsciously, secretly, as if he were finally getting his way. He is not concerned in a regimented way, as ComTrax would expect from their soldier of fortune in the jungle. Where do these signals emit from, these designer fashionista Xradio waves that arrive so brilliantly in the dead night?
Has one of the machines tapped into a Wide Angle Need Track (W.A.N.T.) code? 

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