Reboot

THE PREMISE: Imagine a world where there is no guilt. It's the year 3000 and humans no longer evolve. Earth is littered with mainframes that store the population's data, thoughts and feelings. Societies have been created from people with similar characteristics and desires in order to create harmonious communities. But what happens when someone starts to question this segregation and alter the mainframe's algorithm.

A 100-Word Story

Shame washed over Audrey shrivelling her insides. Feeling parched, she headed for the kitchen taking her internal cinematography with her. Slaking her thirst, her synapses rehydrated causing further recollections to filter through to her consciousness.

Snapshot images of last night flickered through Audrey’s mind.

She had been unleashed and offensive. Drunk. There was only one thing to do.

She plugged herself in and pressed erase-reboot. Her past deleted.

Audrey hated evenings on her own. Loneliness enveloped her. She finished off the bottle, checked the computer’s mainframe; guilt-free she weaved her way out of the door to look for company.

A 100-Word Story

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