"FWLS20" - читать интересную книгу автора (A Future We'd Like to See)

smell of burnt flesh is almost faded away.

A really, really, really gaudy sweater. Part of it, at
least. It got a bit ripped up in the struggle last week.
Fortunately it's red, so that doesn't matter.

An old kung fu action figure with the left arm missing. He
doesn't seem to mind.

Two bits. 1975 date. I use it to make decisions. Can't
exactly flip a credit chip.

A small broken speaker. I had used this to blast tunes out
of my computer until Karen turned it up too high and it exploded.
We had a good laugh, and I promised to fix it before the music
files from Assembly '45 came out, so she'd be able to play them
in stereo.

Here's that faulty credit chip we got for the run made on DI
SoftCorp. The guy, a Donny somebodyorother, (who wanted the
illegal alpha of their latest game) mailed us this chip in
payment, claiming there was a million on there. There was, but
the interface slot was screwed to hell. We were set up to crash
into really hard black ice so he could send in a more experienced
team while we played diversion. Karen and I didn't know that.
The money doesn't matter; the payment wouldn't have been enough,
considering the losses.

Some old drug kit. Some guy named Bernard gave it to us as
a free sample, but we didn't like the aftereffects. Besides,
that was when we were young and foolish, not old and foolish.

Karen's wedding ring. She didn't need it anymore. And
here's a disk copy of the eulogy. I really should have
spellchecked this thing. I'm not a terribly good writer, after
all.

There's the bullet I considered using. Junk, junk, junk, I
didn't need that. I had already dealt with the pain in the most
efficient way possible. Karen would have been proud, in a way.
I'm feeling much better now.

I closed the top drawer after removing most of the dust and
opened up the bottom drawer, dusting Donny somebodyorother's
lungs. Not much dust there, fortunately, as I've got other
things I'd like to do; can't spend all the live long day
cleaning. Maybe I should hire a maid. The fishbowl needs a
water change soon, so I should hire one soon if I'm going to hire
one.