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Gray ore pulses. Tarnished fob, foreign chevron paste. Polished, hums ancient code to space. |
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~ Poltergeist Blues ~ by Phil Adams |
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Rap. Tap. Footsteps. Groaning wail. Knocking o'er my head. Restless spirit, I bid thee ~ sleep. |
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Criminal Privacy
by David Siegel
Bernstein
©2008

The Judge banged his gavel for attention. He needed the
Court to remain focused long enough for him to finish up.
He’d already said twice that he had an end-of-auction to catch on
eBay. He turned to the stenographer—whose thumbs were frantically
texting updates to the Court's homepage. Good, at least he was
alert.
"The defendant," the Judge said, "has been found guilty of the
willful act of non-blogging. For the crime of keeping
secrets from Google, the defendant is hereby sentenced to two
years of You-Tube ridicule and another six months of plagiarizing
jokes into chain emails."
We the jury ignored the in-court spectacle. We had moved
on. Instead, ten of us were dutifully typing on laptops;
keeping friends and family updated; another was arranging a
meeting with her online e-ball-&-chain.com match; and I was IMing
invitations to the attorneys to get them to join my MySpace
network.

~ David Siegel Berstein,
Pennsylvania ©2008
To support his writing addiction and excessively extravagant
lifestyle, David consults as a forensic statistician. He has
been published in numerous print and online magazines —including
the "Best of 2006" in Apollo's Lyre and the 10th
Anniversary Issue of AntipodeanSF. Most recently, his
writing appeared in Afterburn SF, Ray Gun Revival,
Mysterical-E, Orchard Press Mysteries, Aoifie's
Kiss, The Rose & Thorn, Bewildering Stories,
Midnight Times. |
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