Of Mice and Monitors

by Jenunique

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His fingers hovered above the keyboard while he stared intensely at the flickering monitor screen. Clicker made a mental note to reset the refresh rate before he left.

Sighing, his focus honing in on the very soul of the machine that grunted and sputtered while it held on to its last breath of life. Neglect and overuse were major issues but manipulation of files and folders by one who should never access that which doesn’t have the power to see beyond Gates pretty icons.

Clicker carefully coerced the computer back to its orginal state. Dust particles obliterated to nothingness and wiring harnesses shimmied into place within the shell. The harddrive shuddered before falling under hypnosis.

A breeze began flowing gently through the cooling fans. He saved all User’s files. With the abuse of the machine, the urge to “lose” them was great.

He was setting the hertz when the door opened. User smiled, “All done?” Clicker nodded, “All done.”

Clicker dialed his phone as he walked out.

“Ready?”

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Comments

Average Reader Rating: 4.5 stars out of 5

  1. Of Mice and Monitors

    Jenunique's Buddy Icon Jenunique

    Posted 22 days ago

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_comic_book_superpowers
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  2. Of Mice and Monitors

    Jenunique's Buddy Icon Jenunique

    Posted 22 days ago

    by the way, that was a hint at a “jump in here and sequel.” ;D We need a few super heroes running around here…. again.. Seems we had a string of deaths recently.

  3. Of Mice and Monitors

    Celestic23's Buddy Icon Celestic23

    Posted 22 days ago

    was the title a spoof of Of Mice and Men?

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    judee4u2's Buddy Icon judee4u2

    Posted 22 days ago

    5.0 out of 5 stars

    And again – a great ficlet! Sounds like someone has had some experience in “performing surgery” on computers! Are you sure that you are in the right profession? LOL

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    THX 0477's Buddy Icon THX 0477

    Posted 20 days ago

    4.0 out of 5 stars

    Took me a while to get my head wrapped around this one, but I think I’ve got it now. The sentence starting ‘Neglect and overuse…’ was particularly hard for me to follow. Otherwise a very nicely written little ficlet about a less traditional super power.
    LoA

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    THX 0477's Buddy Icon THX 0477

    Posted 20 days ago

    4.0 out of 5 stars

    Couldn’t resist a sequel. I do love super powers!

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    Jenunique's Buddy Icon Jenunique

    Posted 20 days ago

    That particular sentence was the most edited one in the piece. And there was a heckuva lot of editing in this one. I think I first had enough for three Ficlets but I refused to break it apart. :/ It still lost a LOT of what I wanted to get across but that’s part of the joy of being here. ;D
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    Off to enjoy the sequel. (Insert happy dance here.)

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