Thursday, August 5, 2010

Coast Mountain Sunset



aloha coastal writers,
                                   Sailing, boaters, surfers, coastal mountain inspire
today's flash fiction.   Enjoy play on!
      

The Beyond Mode

"If I'd only known then what I know now," Cooper says. Suzi hears the inflection in his voice that tells her something is not right. Is she about to enter one of those smart contests that has sprinkled their relationship here for the last year? Has she overstepped her bounds with her own driven data(O.D.D.) and her blue flickers, only to enter into another archaic battlefield of scientific ego? Will the atmosphere go thick and sticky because she all to often shows off her own brand of self control, failing to notify the principal investigator, dropping the ball at telling Dr Cooper first? 
     He is a smart man, maybe a little too smart, always in possession of those extra perceptions.
     How are you?" she says to Cooper, who is standing at the monitor, just staring, as if he were waiting to board a shuttle to anywhere. He glances at Suzi with a strange quirk, more emotion-driven than data. Is he were unaware of her latest data? 
     If they stand there much longer, if they continue to stare, they'll both notice each other to be beyond kill mode.

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