Get Up Offa That Thing by Gary Phillips

Author:Gary Phillips
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Down & Out Books

Overtown, Miami. The Tech Expo was packed and full of millennials. Madd Skillz parked his car down the street. He flashed his badge as he walked through the entrance. He saw a large white tent with two rows of smaller 12-foot tents lining the walkway leading up to the History Lyric theater.

As he passed the information table, he snuck his earpiece in.

“I’m inside,” He said. He hadn’t spoken to headquarters since he’d landed. He didn’t like to check in every five minutes, only when he arrived at new locations.

“Excellent. Remember, you are looking for Barbar Enterprises. They use animal technology,” said the voice in his ear. “Also, don’t forget how lucky you are to get this assignment. First, it’s in Miami. All those women. I bet Viagra don’t sell nothing down there. And second, it’s a Black tech conference. Come on! How they choose you I’ll never know. Anyway, at least you won’t see any cultists down there. Miami is really the North Caribbean.”

“Yeah, you needed to come instead of me. But trust and believe base command can’t keep me from hitting them back for what they did to me back in Harlem. You can call them middle easterners, but they are Kabaz zombies to me because they tried to kill my family.

“Skillz, Skillz slow down. We fixed it so they think you are dead. You won’t have to be distracted by them and you can just focus on your assignments.”

“Well, I found the name of the group that the ones who attacked me were with. They are part of The Order of Kabaz. Human Traffickers. The Order of Kabaz is older than Islam and the followers said to be mindless zombies. Also, let me remind you they have been sex trafficking Black people since before slavery. You know we weren’t picking cotton out there. Anyway, let me get this assignment over. Maybe Miami will take my mind off of giving out some karma. Skillz out.”

Skillz stopped at a few exhibits, looking at the inventions. A high school student competition caught his attention. All the kids talked to everyone who stopped at their booths like they were judges and held their future in their hands. He remembered that feeling. He’d once won the Granvel T. Woods award in his middle school competition.

It wasn’t long before he saw a young man with long hair twists and the sides of his head shaved, standing in a booth. While he was assigned to observe, he decided to take a minute to entertain the young man who seemed to be getting overlooked.

“So, what do you have here?” Skillz looked at the young man’s table. He had a small sign which read S.E.N.S.E.S. There was only a piece of paper on the table with a QR code on it.

“It’s a personal security app based on the five senses. If you take out your phone and scan the QR code, you can see all about it.” The young man replied.

Skillz knew that’s what the QR code was for, but he took a little offense to the young man for telling him to do something so obvious.

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