Cyberstrike

by Jon Kemsley

Frantic footsteps echo in tiled corridors. Tech type in a baseball cap kicks at a buzzing server. "Damn that Gates and his shoddy merchandise." Managerial muppets in shrill chorus bleating, "We’ve been hacked!" Strip lights dip as flat screens flicker and die. A woman’s voice crackles over the intercom: CASHBACK are taking you down.

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Jon Kemsley has been published in the Fiction Pool, New World Writing, New Reader Magazine, Ellipsis, Storgy and others. He lives and works on the south coast of England, listens to old jazz records and occasionally remembers to call his brother about whatever it was he promised to do the last time.