In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.     --  Ernst Fischer

Blue Screen

by Cary Enoch Reinstein

A burned out software developer becomes careless after working far too many hours. He finds himself with partial amnesia and totally disembodied after a bug in his code crashes his system. As he searches for a way back, he discovers that he can merge with the minds of the women he encounters in the corridors. Only one of them can help him debug his program and save him from the Blue Screen of Death. But there are so many fascinating women. Stay tuned.


©Copyright 1997-2008 by Cary Enoch Reinstein. All Rights Reserved. This story may not be reproduced in any media without the author's explicit written permission.  


DISCLAIMER: This is a work of satirical fiction. All characters in this story are fictitious. Any resemblance to anybody real or living or deceased is purely coincidental and unintentional. This work of satirical dystopian fiction is for your entertainment only. Nothing here even remotely suggests that my former employers may hold any of the opinions expressed here or that this tale is remotely about them (it's not).

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