Firewall by Sean Rodman

Author:Sean Rodman
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781459814554
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
Published: 2017-06-01T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

I sometimes imagine my life as the pages from a comic book.

Panel 1.

Black and white. Me at school, frowning. The teacher—a bug-eyed monster—yammers in the background. There are little thought bubbles floating above my head as I dream up new things to create in Killswitch.

Panel 2.

Black and white. Me walking home, frowning, past crowds of students. I’ve become half invisible, faded out. They all ignore me, even Griggs. But I don’t notice. My thought bubbles are starting to fill the panel with spiderbots, bugchoppers, warfighters.

Panel 3.

Black and white. The thought bubbles have grown again, crowding everything else off the page. People run screaming from my monsters.

Panel 4.

Full color. Me, dark bags under my eyes from sleep deprivation. Sitting in front of my laptop. The ideas from my thought bubbles are now contained on the screen. Becoming real. Big smile on my face. The sun is rising as I finish another epic addition to my new world.

The panels repeat, again and again. Eleven days and nights pass by like this.

Each day, my virtual world grows bigger and more beautiful. And the real world just seems to get dimmer.

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