The Exchange Device
By Morpheus
Elizabeth Martin let out a sigh as she knocked on the door of her neighbor’s house. She glanced back across the street at he own house, thinking that she’d much rather be in her room and chatting with her friends online. However, this was something she needed to do, and besides, it would only take a couple hours.
It had been just a little over a month since Elizabeth had turned sixteen, and she’d been trying to save up the money to buy herself a car. In fact, her original goal had been to buy a car the day she turned sixteen, though it was taking longer to earn the money than she’d
Papers and empty coffee mugs buried the desk in Michaels home office. What space that remained was taken up by his monitor and PC tower, a frankenstein's monster pieced together with whatever spare parts he could find that would let the thing still turn on. His last rig was and old reliable machine that he had built on a small budget, a budget that he was determined to stretch to it's absolute limit. That limit was reached earlier in the week, as the scorch marks on the desk and wall demonstrated. This new computer was proving to be a major pain, but it would do for now. If Michael could just finish this project, he could buy a NASA supercomputer if he wanted. 10 years of a corporate desk job had disillusioned Michael with his choice of career. When he first learned programming, he wanted to create something big, something that would change the industry. Even if he knew he'd only be a cog in the greater machine, being a small part of something that changed peoples lives for the better