Slow PC

Brass Ep 40

Copper arrived in the libraries computer room. She flicked the power switch and a dozen computers beeped to life.

Her fingers danced across the keyboard. A printer came to life and began regurgitating paper with ink spread across it.

Copper’s keyboard tapping soundtrack paused. “Oh, no.” Her screen paused, flickered and turned blue.

She squeaked as the PC crashed all the other computers slowed down to watch.

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Olivia’s Tree

By Layne Ambrose

“Seriously another one?” Olivia says.

“Every day Olivia. It is a graveyard after all. People have to go somewhere,” Rufus says in a deflated tone.

“Well can’t they see that we are running out of space here?” Olivia protests.

Rufus shrugs. “Whatever, I’m not sharing my tree. This is my tree so, everyone can just bugger off,” Olivia exclaims.

“Calm down, no one said that you had too,” Rufus says.

“Good because I’m not. I saw that old lady with her dog eyeing my tree. It is totally not happening.”

Story by Layne Ambrose of Chewing-On-Glass.com. Check out Layne’s blog for more glass being chewed. Thanks for the vignette, Layne!

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Lost Letter

Brass Ep 39

Copper made her way to the libraries second floor. Bookshelves had collapsed across a number of games tables.

Chess pieces were strewn across the floor. Decks of cards had been scattered in ways that would have made magicians weep. Scrabble boards had been snapped in half, throwing their letters into an alphabet soup over every surface.

Once past the Scrabble boards, she let out a sigh of relief. It was all fun and games until somebody lost an ‘I’.

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Auto Motive

Brass Ep 38

As copper stripped any salvageable parts from the PC, Iron continued browsing the books.

She found her way into the automotive section. Books lined the shelves with titles relating to cars, motorcycles, tractors and engines. She pulled a book off the shelf titled “A beginners guide to starting combustion engines.”

She turned it over.

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Scotch Tape

Brass Ep. 37

They found their way to the library where Copper spotted a lone computer. She pulled out her tools and got to work deconstructing it.

Iron wandered up the aisles of books. “Don’t go too far,” called Copper. Irons claws were nimble enough to open a book, but not sharp enough to turn the pages with accuracy. Tilting her head sideways, she read the book titles.

‘Scotch; The History of Sellotape.’ She debated having a read, but she knew she’d never find the beginning.

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History Class

Brass Ep. 36

They headed into the stationary room and nudged open the doors to the connected classrooms. Copper walked through the history classroom.

Irons opinion of the school lowered dramatically. Scanning the walls, she noticed a poster with the heading ‘Great Rulers’. She dismissed it as uninformative when saw no mention of the Helix 30cm Shatterproof.

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Even Number

Brass Ep. 35

“It’s blocked,” grumbled Copper as she put her weight into the door. “OK, we can go around.”

Copper led Iron back down the corridor and into the math classroom. Iron paused and read an equation on the chalkboard. At the top was the word ‘Seven’. Following that was a series of plus and minus numbers. Underneath read the line ‘make seven even.’

Iron clamped her claws around the board rubber and removed the S.

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Dead Deer

“Shogmagrathagratiu,” croaked Deer.

“Whatever you say, mate,” replied Lucy.

Deer slumped to the ground, his skin fell from his body. The features of his face slid off piece by piece until just a skull remained.

“Hey, hey,” chuckled Lucy, tugging on an antler, pointing at Deers skull. “No eyed deer!”

“Oh, for god’s sake,” sighed Yuffie. “Now what do we do with him?”

“Chop it up and sell it to passing people?” suggested Lucy. “We could chop off his balls and tell a human they have medicinal purposes.”

“We wouldn’t get much for them,” sighed Yuffie. “Deer testicles are under a buck.”

Deers corpse and pixel art trees are snap-shotted, printed and doodled on with permission of the rather awesome, lum. It’s from a free game, Devil Haunts Me. A free survival horror game by lum. Check em out here: https://lum-scum.itch.io/. You can hit ’em up on Twitter at @uberprawn.

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Mem Test

Brass Ep. 34

“It’s a long way to Brass,” sighed Copper. “We’ll need some extra spares.”

Iron mewed an agreement as Copper led them into St Francium school. A map hung on the wall inside. It looked as familiar as everything else that was falling apart around here.

She used to strip the RAM and hard drives out of computers. She had some good memories.

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Photo Mem

Brass Ep. 33

Copper turned away, starting her journey to the city of Brass. Unable to watch her home and old life sink further into the earth. The rot of these lands had hounded her for so long she couldn’t remember what life was like before.

She could visualize scenes, but they never related to her current situation. Copper pans with the lady. Building alongside Iron.

It was like she had a photographic memory. It just never developed.

Photo by Pablo García Saldaña on Unsplash. 

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