Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Coastal Mountain Paddle Surfing



Aloha writers of the Coast,
     Paddle surfers paddling off to the Coastal mountains inspires
today's coastalSciFi flash fiction.    Enjoy and play on!


The Counterfeit

     He lies flat. For now, the monitors above Cooper's head indicates he should be convulsing and screaming. The closest screens absorb attention as if performing tribal ceremony: the blinking of sensors and the scans, the short-panning omni-retro transfer(S.P.O.R.T.); the flow of the jungle; those chemtides lapping the coast; the satellite feeds. He from the prone position on the bunk, looks beyond the data atmosphere into Suzi's cloud stream. Even now any attempt at social protocol would be a charade. He still isn't sure if her role was an assigned performance or some sort of faultless abeyance. He didn't care then and he doesn't care now; she is real only to him. Being with her is better than any of his so-called life experiences. So what if she is a counterfeit. There is nothing false about his feelings for her. 

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