(Author’s note: Nothing…I’m going to be moving soon. It may mean no post-Christmas story…but you never know. Here’s today’s fictioneers: )

© Douglas M. MacIlroy
Everybody Wants To Rule The World
by Miles H. Rost
“Dexter, this idea is crazy!”
“It’s not like you had a better one. Using the globe, I can track where the hacker’s main server is, and wipe it out with 1 keystroke.”
“Which one?”
“Backspace.”
“But what do you need to do to trace it?”
“As the signal moves, like it’s doing now, I need to…”
Dexter tapped his keys.
“…use commands to follow the trail and…”
He rested his hand above the backspace key.
“NOW!”
*click*
Suddenly, the room got pitch dark.
“What happened?!” Stephanie, his best friend, cried out.
“Uh…we better run. We just nuked PG&E’s substation.”
There’s going to be big trouble ahead.
Depending on which agency gets a hold of them first. Think “Real Genius”. Thanks for reading!
that sounds ominous
It certainly does! Thanks for reading!
You certainly have technology to destroy but need to work on tracking a bit more. Who gave you access to nuclear bomb?
“Today we’re going to make a nuclear reactor out of household chemicals” – Philo from “UHF”. Thanks for reading!
Whoopsie! Not sure that was wise!
Nope. Not at all. Where’s the popcorn?!
Powers still out in Sonoma County!
And the surrounding counties as well. XD
Made me smile.
That is what I look for every single time! Thank you!
Not a good sign indeed!
Born under a bad sign, I guess! XD
Round here we call that “finger trouble”.
One finger on the red button…. XD
Oh oh, nuking is bad at the best of times, not thinking it through is fatally careless
Release ze nuukes! Thanks for visiting!