Screaming in digital

Some say for the better.

But they only say it in private. Behind closed doors. Usually in the dark. With no cellphones nearby.

It took a long time for people to accept that. The cellphone connection. I mean, it was obvious from the start. Take offence, let something trigger you, and before your friends had a chance to dislike your comment you’d be bleeding out into your milky latte.

Emotions attracted them, you see. Particularly outrage. And indignation.

When the news broke, it went viral. In the farthest corners of the internet, people took offence to having their faces ripped off by invisible inter-dimensional predators.

Ouch.

The sharks launched a feeding frenzy that left most under-thirties unidentifiable and no longer capable of expressing outrage, digitally or otherwise.

Second part of a new short story I knocked out over the festive season. Not yet published. Could form part of a new collection of short stories later in the year, if I knock out a few more.

My old published stuff is still available on Amazon. Dancing in Valhalla is free today and tomorrow (Amazon time), before I take it off Kindle Unlimited and open it up to all other booksellers.

All books also available in paperback from Curiosity in Pretoria, and The Alternative Geek in Hartebeespoort.

Or in paperback from Loot, (Dancing in Valhalla – currently selling for R28 off the listed price, for some reason – here; Burning Roses here; and Hard Money here).

Till next time.

Cheers.