| ] Reenie's head chip woke her by steadily increasing] the perceived volume of a song by a British comedy
 ] troupe. Lots of trippy dreams last night. She
 ] couldn't remember them all this morning, but she was
 ] sure they were cool. She rolled out of bed and prepared
 ] for her "Commute" to the adjoining room. Reenie
 ] loved her job, well, as much as she could love any job.
 ] She got to work from home as much as she liked.
 ]
 ]
 ] Avoiding the mirror, she slipped on her jeans from
 ] yesterday and a sweatshirt. She had bought some new comfy
 ] clothes over the past week. For some goofy reason, all
 ] she seemed to have in her closet were suits and foreign
 ] yuppie wear, which were just not her. Maybe she could
 ] donate them to the homeless.
 ]
 ]
 ] Reenie's home workspace was a chaos of unwashed
 ] laundry, cola cans and papers. As she savored her morning
 ] A-1 Cola, she decided to interface with the office, make
 ] sure nothing was going on. "Good morning, Beth.
 ] How's things?"
 If you liked "Ownz0red" by Cory Doctorow, which many of you did, you will definitely like this quick little 10 minute read.  Futurismic is collecting short sci-fi stories and putting them on the web. -Dolemite Futurismic: Fiction |