
*This is a sample chapters from the revised Home Run Edition. Cover by IMbeta.
The song the music app on Alex’s phone was playing gave the royal cemetery a somber tone that fit it perfectly, as electric and vibrant as it was sad and remorseful. Alex had come there to sit under the warm sun and read, but the comfort of her father’s headstone and the melody had overcome her, carrying her to sleep.
Like other apps released daily, the music program had linked with all her social media accounts and traded data, slowly learning her preferences until it could automatically find a song for her mood. It was so accurate, there were times she questioned if the music suited her feelings or caused them.
Two books sat on a bench beside her. Their titles read ‘The Long Memory of The Electron Gods’ and ‘The North American Motherboard’s Divine Tech’. A third book lay on her lap called ‘A Plug N Play Nation: How the ZetaPort OS Connects Society’ open to a diagram of a fifty foot cylinder, a line near the top representing the ground it was screwed into. Alex had drifted off studying the schematic.
A bulky shadow moved over the book. Alerted by the presence, Alex’s eyes snapped open and she pulled her headphones off.
“I know,” she said guardedly. “It’s time to get back to work.” She marked her page with a baseball card. It had a young man in a red batting helmet featured in its frame, ‘Quentin Diamond’ written along the bottom. The book flipped shut.
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