dunh dunh dunh!!!! Nice cliff hanger.

Suggestion: you could just say ‘silly acronyms’ especially when the next sentence names them.

4 – cause I want it to stand alone. (But it’s still excellent & I want MORE!!)

OK, so now I’m going to spend half the day trying to figure out what LCARS stands for…

Alright, dammit, you’ve GOT to write a sequel, or I’m coming to your place, wherever you currently reside, and I’m squeezing it out of you!

GAH!

Well written, wonderful piece. I need more. :-)

Louie’s Careful Accounting Redundancy System

Least Common Ancestor Recursive Search

Lorentz Cyclic Asynchronous Relative Search

Long-Chain Asymptotic Recombination System

Let’s Converse About Reproduction, Students

Lindsey’s Calves Are Really Something

“Lindbergh, Charles A. reporting, SIR!”

Longitudinal Collector Array Radar System

I’m gonna guess that the title of the previous story weighed in on the acronym. “Learning Curves Ahead Reader Submissions” and that they all work at a magazine.

And now I go off to create an acronym challenge!

Very fun first paragraph, and a great way to set it up for the next with that ending line.

@DoItForScience: Clever!!!

Please Sir, may I have more?

wow science, those were good!

and this ficly fits so well, and the cliffhanger was a nice change!

That was great. And now it finally seems like the unsettling, perfect work environs might have something bad up their sleeve.

Am I the only one here to know what LCARS is from? Oh, my fellow nerds, you failed me! No wonder this office is so perfect, it’s on the holodeck!

It’s “Library Computer Access and Retrieval System,” by the way. ;-)