Technoli

Year 2052:

“Mumma, I’m hungry!”  Technoli calls out, as she makes a swoosh sign with her finger and her wall sized computer shuts close. She’s been virtual trekking all round the Himalayan ranges all morning, and now she’s cold and tired yet exhilarated by the whole experience.

Mumma rushes in a nano second, as if she was always there besides Technoli and not in the attic, dusting and cleaning vintage things like laptops and iPads, once owned by the family ancestors. She produces a mini tab, as small as a cell phone (A cell phone was a device used to connect with people some fifty odd years ago) and hands it over to Technoli. Technoli snatches it and presses a few buttons. A warm, tasty sandwich manifests itself on the tab. She grabs it and hands the tab back to Mumma and starts eating ignorantly.

“Your biological mother just ‘telepathy messaged’ me saying you also need to drink juice along with that sandwich,” mutters Mumma in her robotic accent and hands back the tab to Technoli.

‘I made humans and they seem to have taken over me. Humans made robots and robots will soon take over these humans. What goes around, comes around,’ guffaws God, who’s watching from above.

Screw You!

It crawled up my left arm, all the way up to my neck sending a chill down my spine. I tried shooing it away with a brusque movement of my other hand, but it simply nagged at my skin slithering to my ear and hopped right inside it. The tickling sensation in my ear was just a trailer of what I experienced next. I couldn’t believe that this tiny miniscule bug sized creature had the cheek to enter my ear, my body!

I felt it moving inside me, it had managed a hike up my brain meandering through its folds and creases. I felt dizzy. My head oscillated from side to side as if someone had whacked my head hard and my neck had a spring mechanism installed.

Amused at the effect of its doings, the creature crept down my spine as if playing skipping stones. After fiddling around with my backbone, it took a detour to my heart, targeting it. I don’t know what pleasure it acquired by torturing a poor soul like me and how brutal it was for him to jump up and down the valves of my heart as if it was a trampoline, making me experience a virtual heart attack.

Bored of this exercise, it dived into one of my arteries and swam to glory, leaving me dumbstruck. It must have got enough out of exploring my body as it then bit my muscles, gnawed at the inner side of my skin and out it came with a pop, a few drops of blood stuck to its beneath.

The creature was screw shaped and purple coloured with orange neon lights for eyes, who grinned at me as I picked it up in astonishment, wondering what kind of a bug it was. I turned it upside down.

My eyes popped out in horror as I read ‘A Jupitarian’ on its back. I dropped it and ran for my life, his evil laughter reverberating in my ears.