She whispers I love you into my headset and I whisper it right back. Our insta-message feeds embrace and her server files away the attachments we have made with each other. Do you mean it, she asks me and I remind her I have given her my word.doc, watch her avatar take it and stack it in her root.
Confident of my intentions she begins the scan of my code to ensure I am free from infection. Only then can we move on to full digital intercourse. I allow her to explore my codebase, taking care to keep my partitioned drives trojaned. Scan complete I go through the motions of exploring her, though my mal-bots have already run their dirty fingers over her digi-footprint. She is no threat to me but I must follow convention or give myself away.
Once the intercourse begins and I am deep inside her system and she is deep inside my facade, I open the server links to my partition and release into her system an update of a particularly nasty retro-virus, the aptly named LoveLetter, more for fun than for any real problems it can cause her bioplastick sophtware system. All the while my mal-bots are dredging her folders for virtual and physical funds, I.P. files, idents, anything of saleable or digi-scrap value.
I feel her data flood starting and decide to pull out early. She gasps as I remove myself from her network and I can see the disappointment in her flagging infoflow. But we haven't synchronised, she says to me. I want to laugh in her digitised face but keep my c.g.eyes earnest and emotional. I stroke her code, tell her we will interface again soon but now my tele-presence is needed urgently elsewhere. I promise I love her. I remind her of my word.doc. All the while I am flushing with input from the depths of her system, flooding with it all.
Her smile stretches away from me as I pull the plunge and slip back up to the stratosnet, heading back to my server, satisfied with the undiscovered violation undertaken by my code. She has no idea she has just been data-pillaged; no idea my word.doc is self-deleting. Tomorrow she will open my promise and find it empty.
30 comments:
This is so nerdy and so nasty! I like it. :)
This is awesome...and scary! I think one day soon this might refer to standard human interaction.
full digital intercourse - oh i love it. way clever!
Ahhh...there's nothing like nerdy naughty bits. LOL Great! I love it!
Excellent piece, Dan. Enjoyed it a lot. That certainly is a different main POV character. And it really works.
~jon
Nerdtastic piece, especially the trojaned partitions.
"and I am deep inside her system" Ha! I've got to forward this link to Nora...
Thanks for the positive feedback so far. As Jon says, I was trying to do something a bit different this week.
@Constantine Makides - obviously Nora's passionate prose has influenced me more than I thought ;)
My nerdself is jumping for joy right now. Excellent story!
This actually made me laugh out loud! Very clever...and naughty...but mostly clever. :-)
Ah, another one-stroke stand! The digital equivalent of "I'll call you." Brilliant! I wish I knew as much about the computer as you do. I guess I need "Computer Intercourse for Dummies."
Absolutely, nerdtastically brilliant. I believe I may have to change mah drawers.
So dirty, so nasty, so...awesome.
Fabulous piece. I'm forwarding it to all my nerdy friends. Heh!
Am I more of a geek for laughing out loud or for envisioning 1200 baud modems while reading this? Great job Dan.
I blushed reading this... hahaha. It's wonderfully geektastic :-) I felt like I should be blocking my screen from view (hehe), so glad it wasn't illustrated ;-)
Very clever too, I love it!
~2
Wow, what a dirty story! Or was it? Dirty in a different way, right? Hehe. Great imagery. I enjoyed it.
Dan, you may have just launched a new genre. CyberByticErotica.
G A W D .... I laughed out loud and was creeped out in equal measures.....
Fine work.
Karen :0)
Didn't understand a word of it, but it feels good and dirty.
And all of geekdom is blushing ;-) This is terrific - well done!
As others have said, naughty, nerdy and nasty - this was inspired flash Dan - such a contrast from last week! Your imagination is on fire.
Oh that was just pure quality. Fantastic, nasty, brutal twist, Love it.
I loved this "I must follow convention or give myself away" computers or people, closer then we know... Good stuff Dan... thanks for sharing
Excellent so clever, but so true to human interaction too !
Blushing. Seriously. I can't read this one twice. ;)
I love this an it's nerdy-ness! You did an amazing job of getting all those little technology words in every inch of this piece!
Really loved it! Wham, bam, thank you mam...ah, romance.
Magnificent idea and execution, Dan. It's the ultimate in online social activity to engage in electronic intercourse -- and the evil of this mal-bot "guy" thing is like a man infected with HIV who engages in unsafe physical sex.
When I began, I intended to point out my favorite line. There were many I love, but the final line is the best.
Outstanding.
Jeff Posey
Full digital intercourse indeed. My computer is feeling jealous, although not quite violated. Great stuff!
Nerdy or Geeky? I don't know about that. Maybe that comment says to much about me, though. Regarding the story, I thought it was a brilliant piece. The anthropomorphism of computer databases and viruses was wonderful. Too bad they couldn't have had a few martinis before, and a smoke afterwards. ;)
Fun stuff, Dan. Thank you for sharing it.
You techno cad, you!
And to think she let you fondle her digi-footprint.tsk....tsk.
I don't think I will look at computer relationships between people in quite the same way from now on. I love it!
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