Saturday, August 14, 2010

sciFlash Fiction "TheOutpost"


The Arrival

     "So," Jenna asks. "How did Suzi get here?"
     "TheOutpost?" Cooper answers, and can sense there's been some kind of mistake. Is he going to hear some corporate dribble about second quarter losses or revenue advancing as if  the biologics advance network(B.A.N.) were some sort of football game? Is he entering, with his inviting nature and his boyishness, into a world of chit chat about checks and balances from a bigger world gone even more technical because he hasn't shared his most recent data? Is corporate online worldwide(C.O.W.) wondering about its trust in individual electronic payment systems, revealing his own ineptness at record keeping? He walks over to the monitor in a new frame of mind. "TheOutpost," he says again to Jenna.
    "Yes. TheOutpost."

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