Stories tagged “Geek”
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We ain't all the same
He walked into the office. The office loudmouth blurted out “here’s the IT geek, the guru, come on fix it” His auto defence shields sprang into action all those years of special services took over in a flash. He eyed the office loudmo...
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Gamer
I was awake staring at the screen until eye-strained tears blearied my vision and my muscles forgot to blink to clear them away. Stiff neck. Empty stomach. Twitchy mousefinger. 5:38am. I got up to use the bathroom a few minutes ago. But that was actual...
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In the small room
“They’ve been in there for hours,” Gerry said, sounding worried. “I don’t like it.” Creaking and clicking drifted through the locked door to the Small Room. The occasional maniacal laugh did nothing for the mental st...
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I AM a GEEK!
I’m not a nerd or a dweeb. I don’t have a pocket protector, Have tape over my glasses, or have a squeaky voice like Steve Urkel. I don’t have a billion dollars in some Internet company, But, I wouldn’t mind having the money. I w...
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Modern Magic
Another mistake. Another solemn lecture. The guru stroked his grey beard and stared at the apprentice across from him, expectantly. He was neither impatient nor frustrated with the youngster. He was attempting to impart a deep and vast knowledge in a s...
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The Day of the Worm
The computer screen lit his face in a ghostly blue light, the screen reflecting in two mirror images on his glasses. His jaw was a little slack, and his eyes darted to and fro, as his fingers flew. It was amazing to watch the text fill the page, and im...
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The Circus
The poor were ferried into vast orbiting reservations to live like rats in a warren. The mad, the suicidal, the desperate were encouraged to join the Circus. When there weren’t enough people crazy to die, there was a lottery. Saakaar Chaturvedi h...
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Let Me Count The Ways
Hi, I know you can’t reason someone into a relationship, that you can’t calculate the optimum partner. But I’m really not sure how else to express things – the curse of a scientist, I guess. I know they say statistics are lies a...