A.I. Zombie: Book 1 of the Space Station At The Edge Of The Black Hole Series by L.A. Johnson

Author:L.A. Johnson [Johnson, L.A.]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, mobi, epub
Publisher: Chemical Zombie Press, LLC
Published: 2018-03-13T04:00:00+00:00

Gorb doodled in a notepad he pulled out of his desk drawer. A doctor came in and called the next patient. He looked up before turning back to his doodling. Already behind on his paperwork, he was avoiding it. All of the cases so far this morning had been so boring.

A tune played in the back of his head. A strange tune that was not familiar to him. At least not that he could remember. It seemed to come and go in his head and he found that his ideas about it had made their way into his doodle.

Instead of the usual boxes and waves that he usually drew, there were quite a bit of circles. Which was funny, because circles were hard to draw with tendrils and were his least favorite.

It seemed to him, thinking back, that every once in a while, he could hear one of the patients singing, but he couldn't be sure. He stopped doodling for a minute to listen, but right now there was only silence, so he couldn't confirm his theory.

He went and got a cup of coffee and brought it back to his desk. Then he stared at it. He couldn't drink it, of course, he was a jellyfish. But he liked the way the liquid sloshed in the cup, and he liked carrying it around like he was important. Look at me with my coffee.

He swished back and forth and took stock of the waiting room. There had been a dozen patients today, give or take.

He grabbed a pen and began his morning ritual of trying to find a way to balance it where his ear would be if he had one. He had just begun when the odd singing started again. The same strange song he had been hearing on and off, even when he wasn't paying attention.

He tried to place the tune. There was something familiar about it, but he still couldn't place it. He drifted up the hallway to confirm that the sound was coming from a patient room. Yup.

Satisfied, he went back to his desk. Whew, there's that mystery solved. He grabbed the pen again and started to concentrate.

Blaring alarms and red flashing lights lit up the room. These particular warning lights were rare, signaling a space station-wide emergency.

Gorb loved the adrenaline of these moments and it always seemed to him like the place turned into a magical disco. That was, except for all of the shouting and running and stuff.

Lyra came running in. "Hi, Gorb."

"It wasn't me, this time," Gorb said, holding innocent tendrils in the air for her to see.

Lyra didn't pay any attention to him, though and continued running past him down the hall.

Gorb drifted down the hall to see what she was doing, which he could, because he could propel himself around without making any noise whatsoever, which usually allowed him to hear all kinds of juicy information.

This time he drifted just close enough to not be noticed. That was the room with the patient that had been taken in while being pursued.

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