November 2009
4 posts
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Zachariah Gillam’s hands went numb so he wriggled them up underneath his sleeves and flapped his arms until hands and arms were inside the zone between sweatshirt and T-shirt. His hands found his armpits for ten seconds and his arms journeyed back through two sets of wrist cuffs. He rubbed his hands together and cupped them around his face and blew into them. They were still numb and now his...
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The Makpigat Public School was the only place in town with an Internet connection, for reasons nobody quite understood and few bothered to question until Gordon arrived. The story begins in 1986, when Neil the Tech Guy dreamt up a plan to launch a satellite from Makpigat.
The entire set of schematics, from the wiring to the scaffolding, came to Neil in a dream, or so he told Tom. Neil built the...
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“Euech!”
Gordon woke up to the sound of his newly acquired dog barfing a foamy orangish puddle on the floor and his new boss leaning on the horn of a snowmobile in his driveway. He rolled over in bed and reached for the clock on the nightstand and knocked over the ashtray instead. The roach of last night’s joint flying across the bedroom into the puddle of puppy puke and it rained ash over...