The original Words for Wednesday was begun by Delores and eventually taken over by a moveable feast of participants when Delores had computer troubles. Sadly, Delores has now closed her blog forever due to other problems.
The aim of the words is to encourage us to write. A story, a poem, whatever comes to mind.
If you are posting an entry on your own blog, please let us know so we can come along to read it and add a few encouraging words.
This month the words/prompts are supplied by messymimi and can be found here
This week's words/prompts are:
1.horizon 2.consciousness 3.theorist 4.great 5.enhance 6.enter
and/or this sentence:
"It took him a while to realise that everything he decided not to change, he was actually choosing"
Also including Charlotte's colour of the month straw yellow.
Here is my story:
Repercussions from the removal of several hundred computers from their owners were felt around the world almost immediately. One young man, brilliant of mind, had become so ill from the echo he had lost consciousness and been hospitalised with his normal rosy tan now being the dull yellow of old straw.
Quentin had been quite proud to be included in the Hacker's team and to shake the hand of the great theorist known throughout out the gaming world as "Raving Bunny". His real name had never been revealed, but he whispered to Quentin "if you can tell me how you spotted the subliminal, I'll tell you my name is plainer than dry toast."
To this Quentin said, "I just saw it, a tiny blink of lightning in every level of the game and I somehow knew it wasn't supposed to be there. It doesn't enhance any part of the game at all, though of course you can't advance without blowing that up, unless you stick with the game and work around the long way, and that's when the echo sets in if you try to shut down."
"And what does this echo do?" asked Raving Bunny. "I don't know," said Quentin, "as soon as I felt the mind shift I backtracked and blew up that sucker!" "Excellent choice of action," said Raving Bunny, "but how did you do that?" "That's the part I don't understand yet," said Quentin. He looked around at all the people listening in, "it's some sort of instinct I have."
Raving Bunny had a short conversation with most of the hackers present and then asked to speak with Detective Rogers and Quentin's parents. "There may be a light on the horizon," he said. "If we allow Quentin to enter the game with all of us here to monitor his every move, we may discover how he does what he does and also how the subliminal makes itself known to him. The 'mind shift' he described is of particular interest. Then we can backtrack through the "Black Web" and find who put it in there." "And why," said Detective Rogers.
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