Me, A Novel of Self-Discovery

by Thomas T. Thomas

  Beyond that last gate, Carstairs stopped facing outward and spread his arms wide. The woman came erect, jumped with exaggerated shaking of her shoulders and knees, spread her own arms, and rushed forward, wobbling on her spike heels.

  ME’s last view of the carstairs_francis_xavier release process was these three people getting into the vehicle—Carstairs and the woman in back, the other man in front—and driving away. By that time, Alpha-Nine was halfway through its own process of phaging all traces of ME’s modules and handiwork inside the prison’s operating system, and Alpha-Oh was preparing to throw ME back out into the network.

  The job was done. The only problem was, ME never bothered to investigate the original indictment against Francis X. Carstairs before taking it.