This morning I was reading an article about Ray Kurzweil and it reminded me of a longtime story idea bumping around in my head. My last story idea, which didn't stay on the site too long; I am fairly certain, was made into a B-horror flick and was shown on late-night TV. Never watched it, but at that point I was posting my ideas to a site called StoryBytes. (Each story had to be a binary length, i.e. 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128... words long). I assume the site admin probably sold my idea to a producer (all stories become the property of the web site), so I quit participating.
So, on to the story..
This morning, it is official, I am declaring war. I am tired of the petty jabs and demands placed on me by my foe and have deployed my troops. As we speak, they should be breaking down the defenses and allowing my secondary army easy access to everything.
I am really sorry that it has come to this, but my wife has had it coming for quite some time. What started out as a prank last year, has slowly escalated into this all out war. You see for April Fool's day, I spiked her coffee with a nano-paint. Microscopic robots, powered by her hot coffee, slowly turned her toes blue. I don't mean a normal, human blue, but almost cyrillian blue like the sky. The effect was immediate, but temporary and slowly faded after about a week. She seemed fine with the whole thing and we even laughed about it quite some time after.
About a week later, I started noticing blips in my vision. I would close my eyes and could still see what I had been looking at. The images were not an after effect, like after staring at a bright light, but actually a live feed of my surroundings. It was about the same time, my wife started asking pointed questions about my day that confused me. One time, about 15 minutes after talking with my boss, she called and asked "So when were you going to tell me about your raise today?". I was dumbfounded. How could my wife learn of something, that I just found out a few minutes before. She gave me a lame answer ("I just saw a deposit in our checking from your company."), but at that time I accepted it.
That night while sitting on the toilet, I was skimming one of her women's magazines and found out the truth. There in the side bar was an ad.
Nano-Vision
Think your spouse is cheating?
Want to get the whole "picture"?
Visit your local Nano shop and pick up
your 12 week trial of Nano-Vision.
Turn on the included receiver and you can see
everything he does.
Just $99.00
(to be continued...)
