They swarmed through the phone system, hell-bent on causing chaos and mayhem with the emergency services. The phone operators were tired, but dedicated, and so processed the gibbering idiot’s requests for medical attention with a sterile, sensible, emotionless efficiency. Derrick, sipping on a vending machine coffee, half-listened to the gleeful voice whispering in his ear. […]
The doctor stuck his hand into the holographic display and expanded his next calendar appointment. It was a Monday, and Dr Benson hated Mondays as much as he hated the constant stream of state-dependents that demanded urgent attention for their ailments. They were, to Benson, worth a lot of money to him, so he tolerated […]
Tommy’s rocket ship skidded to a stop on the grassy planet. As always, the ship was undamaged and its occupants unharmed – it was, after all, the best ship in the universe. It had to be, because Tommy was the bestest hero in the universe and nothing less would do. Tommy and his robot bear […]
The Internet has empowered us to shift our personal lives online; banking, gaming, even dating and socialising. Unfortunately, this reliance on the electronic world has introduced an element of potential exploitation. From applications that change a computer’s home page to sophisticated programs that infect nuclear power machines (stuxnet is the “largest and costliest development effort […]
“Good morning,” said the man on Debra’s doorstep. He had the confident square jaw and immaculate suit of a salesman, except that he was holding a clipboard rather than a suitcase full of knives or a bag of cleaning products. His hair had to be fake, or at least professionally styled; it was too […]
Bloody alarm, it’s well too early for me. Grab my morning uppers, glass of lukewarm water, press snooze, and enjoy the extra ten minutes. I feel fucked still. My life is shit. That came too soon, turn the alarm off, feel alert and awake. Shit shower shave, brush my teeth, look at my red eyes. […]
Darren paused the computer game and listened. He could hear someone walking slowly down the tiny flat corridor, probably nan coming to give him another bollocking about chucking that brick through that bloke’s window earlier. “Fuck off nana!” he shouted, and threw one of the empty cider cans littering the floor at his peeling white […]
Warren looked around the restaurant bar. “I tell you what,” he said to his best friend Trent, “there are some fucking monsters in here tonight. I wouldn’t crawl over any of them to get to you!” Trent smiled without humour and smoothed his suit down nervously. He wanted his second date with Becky to be […]
Over the last two months I have experienced a massive surge in viruses attacking computer systems. I can’t help but notice that this is about the time when several other hacks and exploit have been made public; I refer to the most obvious “Heartbleed” OpenSSL flaw. I notice that Steam has had an issue too. […]
It was a very warm and dark night as I walked home from my girlfriend’s house. I must have been about 14 or 15. The time was roughly 11pm as I came to the main road that passed in front of my secondary school, and I planned to cut through the school grounds as a […]
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