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    By Stephen Couch

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    Science fiction short story. Freed from jail but banned from using computers, an old-school hacker finds his fascination with the Internet leading him to a world stranger than he could have imagined.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherStephen Couch
    Release dateMar 31, 2013
    ISBN9781301415113
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    Stephen Couch

    Stephen Couch is a writer, a computer programmer, a cover band vocalist, an award-winning audio drama producer, and a lifelong Texan. His short fiction has appeared in such venues as Talebones, Mountain Magic: Spellbinding Tales of Appalachia, and the Stoker Award-finalist Horror Library Vol. 3.

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      By Stephen Couch

      Published by Mere Moments Publishing at Smashwords

      Copyright 2013 Stephen Couch

      Cover image 'Business Query'

      copyright © 2013 John Foxx/Photos.com

      This book is a work of fiction. The names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the writer's imagination or have been used fictitiously and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to persons, living or dead, actual events, locales or organizations is entirely coincidental.

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, scanned, or distributed in any manner whatsoever without written permission from the author except in the case of brief quotation embodied in critical articles and reviews.

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      JULY 21

      In prison, you find yourself existing day by day. Then you get out and enter a world where all the days seem to be happening at once.

      I hadn't seen a computer for the last twenty years, not since the Feds locked me away for hacking into the NORAD network. (Well, they shouldn't make claims like 'intrusion-proof' if they don't want intruders, right?) I came out of prison to find the world got along just fine without

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