Mind Control

Episode 3: New User Zack continued to show the school that Claudia was his by kissing her in public again on Thursday, both at lunch, and after school. Though Zack was enjoying “showing off” his girlfriend, he also noticed something. Not all of the stares they were getting were simply amazed. Some of them seemed a bit, well, hostile. Zack didn’t let it concern him too much. After all, who was going to overreact over a single girl? When Friday came, Zack decided to take it one step farther. He had sat down at his usual table, and Claudia greeted him warmly as she passed his seat. “Hey, Claudia,” he said. “Why don’t you sit here with me?” Claudia paused, again only momentarily, before she nodded, and slid onto the bench beside him. He leaned …

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Episode 14: War of the Minds, Part II ∼∼≈≡≈∼∼∼≈≡≈∼∼∼≈≡≈∼∼ Zack woke up slowly, and stretched. Unusually, he was alone. He hadn’t wanted company the previous night, after the stress of releasing everyone. Or at least, everyone who would let me. The more he thought about it, the more he wondered about the three who hadn’t allowed him to release them. Wendy, in fact, was not under his control, he knew. He had never programmed her to love him, he had only programmed her to do something that had never come to fruition anyway. He had also, at her request, removed her jealousy. He knew that he’d programmed his mother, but he’d not told her to get aroused by him, he’d only told her to let him do what he wanted. He knew that an error …

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Episode 6: A Truly “Personal” Digital Assistant Zack spent the rest of Friday, until about two in the morning, digging into the code inside the devices. He couldn’t, obviously, read the programming inside the programming device itself, and so he instead had to write some software that would fool it into thinking it had sent a message over the Internet when in fact the codes had only been saved to a file on his hard drive. It took him only three hours to do that, for it was straightforward work. By the time he was finished, satisfied with his progress, he was very tired. He climbed into bed, and fell asleep quickly. His dreams were still troubling, for he was worried about what Adam was doing, what was happening behind his back. He would need …

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Episode 7: Debugging The Code Zack was zipping down the street on his new scooter. He’d been out and about just having fun on it for the last hour. Finally, he decided to head on over to Brian’s house, to show him his new toy. He zoomed around the next corner, and headed off for that part of town. Zack noticed immediately that Brian’s pickup truck was gone, so Brian was almost certainly not home. Oh well, he thought. I’ll show it to Wendy, then. Zack knocked on the door, and then walked in, calling out a greeting. He heard Mrs. Selman call out from the kitchen, and so he went in that direction. As he entered the kitchen, he saw Mrs. Selman sitting at the table. She looked very dejected as she stared down …

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