The God Organ by Anthony J Melchiorri

Author:Anthony J Melchiorri [Melchiorri, Anthony J]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Thunderbird Media
Published: 2014-11-02T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 25

Monica Wolfe

November 20, 2063

Monica sat at the desk near her bedroom window. Her close encounter with Preston Carter in the LyfeGen parking garage was still fresh in her mind. He had helped her up after her disastrous slip on the icy patch near the exit.

“Are you okay?” His eyes had contained more concern than anger when she nodded sheepishly.

Though a dull pain had throbbed in her elbow and tailbone, her ego had been more bruised than any bone.

“What are you doing back here?”

“I was working late.” She had remembered the protesters outside the building. “I just wanted to leave without having to deal with that mess out front.”

“Oh,” Carter said. His eyes seemed to twinkle as he narrowed them. She could see that he recognized her, but he was struggling to place her.

Before he could piece anything together, she turned to leave. “I’ll see you tomorrow, Mr. Carter. Have a nice evening.” She had waved goodbye, trying to reinforce the idea that she worked at LyfeGen and that was where he had seen her.

He had offered her a weak nod and a limp wave goodbye.

Now, she blinked rapidly to regain focus as she navigated a folder of protocols. Her eyes had a nasty habit of drying out when she became hyperfocused on any of the data for too long. With an ocean of files to wade through, she kept rubbing at her eyes until they were red.

Her trick of distributing comm cards in the parking garage had paid off in dividends. As she’d planned, the cards had caught the interest of well-intentioned individuals hoping to return them to their proper owner. She jumped in her seat as she unraveled each packet of data like a child on Christmas morning. Data trickled onto her untraceable throwaway comm card throughout the day.

Each card she had left in the parking garage had a dummy set of photos and files filled with nonsense data garnered from random news streams and sites from the Net. Besides this useless data, each card shared a common file, hidden and encrypted in layers of code. The program she designed utilized a modified version of the near-field communications hack she had attempted to use on Preston Carter in the coffee shop.

This time, though, she had no set target. Rather, the cards sent her all the data they could obtain in sixty seconds after unsuspecting LyfeGen employees turned them on to try and identify the owners. Then the cards wiped themselves clean.

The only caveat was that too many individuals with the same mysterious story of a lost comm card might arouse the suspicions of LyfeGen’s data protection specialists. With all the media scrutiny and the recently announced change in management, Monica gambled on the company being distracted from an issue that appeared more innocuous in nature.

She assembled a set of scripts to prioritize her files for closer examination. Starting off, she delved through files with terms like “Sustain,” “production protocols,” and “genetic delivery updates,” filtering out press releases and other files crafted for public consumption.

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