You walk down the cold wintry streets of New New York, looking for a suicide booth. The denomination mortgaging tax was just raised again, and your apart-a-house's lease was over in negative ten minutes. Life is a fiery furnace of derelict loans..with smog on top. Wondrous. Not paying attention to where you're going, you run head first into something very solid; with blackness etching in around the corners of your vision, the last thing you see is icy blue eyes set in a marble smooth face with a mocking smile. O.o You awake in a chilly and dimly-lit room. &quot;Did you enjoy your slumber?&quot; you hear a smooth voice, smooth like marble, say. Great, you thought, I'm still not dead. You feel a light pressure on your upper leg and look down to see a super computer known as a SEMbot, one of the newer models, resting a micro-perfected hand on one of the straps holding you down. Wait, Straps?! &quot;Simulated Entertainment Machine bot, unbind me!&quot; you command. The SEMbot's gaze drifts up to your face, &quot;Not likely.&quot; he smirks. 2008-03-17T20:02:35Z http://ficlets.com/feed/story/23292 <p>I enjoyed this story &#8211; the ways that it could go forward and back are legion. Please write some more of it</p> http://ficlets.com/stories/23292?basename=49269 2008-03-17T20:02:35Z Ridcully Calvert http://ficlets.com/authors/user_joon <p>Chilling and dark vision of the future. Now we get to see a suicidal guy fight for his life? The paradox is too amusing. Very well written and welcome back to the ficleting world.<br />LoA</p> http://ficlets.com/stories/23292?basename=45587 2008-03-04T23:43:54Z THX 0477 http://ficlets.com/authors/thx_0477 <p>This <em>is</em> good. You should totally keep going&#8230;.</p> http://ficlets.com/stories/23292?basename=45554 2008-03-04T21:50:22Z Brebelles http://ficlets.com/authors/brebelles <p>gracias! I.D. tee hee, i&#8217;mma call you ID from hereon out!! <strong>declared from imaginary mountain top</strong></p> http://ficlets.com/stories/23292?basename=45541 2008-03-04T21:10:27Z Blossom Ruoqen http://ficlets.com/authors/stainedglasstears <p>woww, this is good. :)</p> http://ficlets.com/stories/23292?basename=45532 2008-03-04T20:53:45Z invisibility_disability http://ficlets.com/authors/invisible_stories