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    Secret Messages
    Secret Messages
    Secret Messages
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    Secret Messages

    By Jeremy Hawkins

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    Simon is secretly in love with Lucy, a fellow coder at Aeronautics Data Systems, but he can't work up the nerve to make a move. One day, while fixing some ancient code, he discovers a series of comments embedded in the code, decades-old professions of a former's coder's secret love for a fellow employee. The comments end with the coder vowing to finally make a move on the object of his affection. After Simon shows Lucy the comments, she insists they track down the coders involved to find out what happened next. But Simon isn't entirely sure he wants to. The situation is too similar to his own. What will it mean for him if he learns the former coder's move ended badly?

    A 5,900-word story.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJeremy Hawkins
    Release dateSep 27, 2012
    ISBN9781301854592
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      Secret Messages - Jeremy Hawkins

      Secret Messages

      By Jeremy Hawkins

      Copyright 2012 Jeremy Hawkins

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      Simon Bradley leaned back in his chair and rubbed his eyes. Rubbing them didn't help. They were dry and sore from staring at the computer screen for so long. Behind his closed eyelids he could see fragments of code glowing in the blackness like the words of God.

      Words of God. Funny joke. True, some programmers seemed to think of themselves as desk-bound deities, masters of the nowhere everywhere of digital space, weaving other people's realities out of letters and numbers. But really, what kind of god got achy eyes and stiff fingers and a bad back?

      And right now he wasn't weaving realities or anything even a fraction as romantic; he was trying to update a creaky old Fortran 77 program written decades earlier by some schmuck who was probably an old man by now. Or dead. Another proof of non-divinity. What kind of god is outlived by his works?

      At any rate, while the man might be gone, his code remained, and it was up to Simon to update that code (a job that really should have been done ages ago, but management here at Aeronautics Data Systems

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