One Hot Second (2014)
“In an instant his attention snapped to the flickering light overhead, his breath strangling to a halt as the electricity teetered on the edge.
Goddamn it, you son of a bitch, don’t you quit on me again...
For the third time since the storm began, the power cut out and plunged the Herald’s deserted offices into darkness.
“Fuck!”
As if in apology, a mechanical thunk sounded a second later as the emergency generator kicked in—a generator he suspected was powered by a single hamster... running his guts out in a rusty wheel. Though he’d saved the layout of the Herald’s special edition countless times like a paranoid freak since the storm began, it was still only half-done. How could it be otherwise, when the screen froze every frigging time there was a change in power output? And forget about the photos he’d taken. Those damned things seemed to be uploading one pixel at a time. Every time there was a power fluctuation, everything slowed to an agonizing crawl.MoreLess
Goddamn it, you son of a bitch, don’t you quit on me again...
For the third time since the storm began, the power cut out and plunged the Herald’s deserted offices into darkness.
“Fuck!”
As if in apology, a mechanical thunk sounded a second later as the emergency generator kicked in—a generator he suspected was powered by a single hamster... running his guts out in a rusty wheel. Though he’d saved the layout of the Herald’s special edition countless times like a paranoid freak since the storm began, it was still only half-done. How could it be otherwise, when the screen froze every frigging time there was a change in power output? And forget about the photos he’d taken. Those damned things seemed to be uploading one pixel at a time. Every time there was a power fluctuation, everything slowed to an agonizing crawl.MoreLess
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