June was an 18 year old teenager, she had a knack for engineering and loved to tinker. She lived in a city called Middlemen.... She was an only child as her mom and dad were total polar opposites to her, mom was the goody two shoes house wife and dad was the drunk suck up to those sex maids you’ve been seeing in commercials for the grand opening of the Middl...
Arthur walked through the harsh sandstorm as he trudged to 2 people wearing different LED Masks hanging out in some kind of bunker.. One with a red and blue face and another with dollar signs for eyes.. “Ahhh god..” “Arduino, can’t we just rest here for a bit?” Asked Cent tired.. “Shut up Pansies, it isn’t over yet, we’ve been walking through this desert for...
Author's note: This one takes a while to build. Hopefully you'll find the climax worth the wait. ***** "You worthless piece of crap!" I spit, desperate to provoke a reaction, any reaction. But all I get back is a blank, blue stare from the computer screen. I've just spent the better part of a year at this keyboard, writing and re-writing the manuscript of...
I took another swig of Mountain Dew, savouring the sugar rush as I frantically corrected and typed in new lines of code into my computer. Green lines rolled past my eyes and my fingers flew across the keyboard. It was late- 2 am. Or was that early? I honestly didn't care. What I did care about, however, was the $100 I was getting offered to finish this guy's...
This is more of a prologue to future stories. I hope there is interest in where this is going. _______ At the GP&E lab there are lots of crazy projects. The company has been scooping up the latest tech companies with the ideology that eventually they will get enough technologies together that they will synergize. As such you find one group working on AI, a...
Copyright © 2015 Naoko Smith This is a re-edited version of Chapter 1. (I added to the chapter, and also cut it in half and put half after Chapter 2.) Thank you so much for the feedback, which I'm working hard to take on board. Please leave comments for me. Thank you! (Diolch.) Lady Arianna el Jien van Sietter opened her round blue eyes and stared dream...
The call came on a rainy morning in early December. Nicholas was sitting in his apartment in northeast Portland, looking out the window as he ate his oatmeal and sipped coffee. "Good morning, may I speak to Nicholas Harvin?" "This is he," answered Nicholas. "Hello, this is Theresa Hernandez at Pearson and Porter. We'd like to offer you a consultant positi...
Mark woke up earlier than usual and jumped out of bed. Happiness permeated through him. Sheri had not left his mind for very long. He thought how long it had been since he woke eager to start his day. His mornings often moved slowly, and until he had his coffee, his mind focused on the issues he knew waited for him at the office. Lonely and stressed out from...
A chorus of groans echoed through the harshly lit computer lab. “Complain all you want!” My balding professor retorted. “You all know that CS3003 is the final weed-out class. If you want to graduate, you WILL have a working program in my inbox by the end of the month! Dismissed!” I slammed my software engineering book closed with an audible snap. Luckily, I...
(This is my first ever submission and I have opted to do it totally on my own without editors just to see if I could do it.) My name is Rick, and while I was in high school and college most people who met me got the impression I was a computer geek. I am not a bad looking guy, but certainly not the best looking guy on earth either. I am 6'0" tall, weigh abo...