by Jonathan Idolor
Witness Henry Bemis, a charter
member in the fraternity of gamers. A
geekish young man whose passion is the computerized game,
but who is conspired against by extremely high prices of
technology and a girlfriend and a world full of skeptical non-techies and the unrelenting limits of
hard disk space. But in just a moment,
Mr. Bemis will enter a world without high prices or girlfriends or lack of
hard drives or anything else. He'll have a world all to himself...without anyone.
Henry is a young man with a passion for computer games. His addiction to
computer games leads him to need more hard disk space than his money can buy. You
can imagine his wallet complain and, eventually, his girlfriend actually did complain
about him wasting too much time and money playing games. As a cruel joke, his
girlfriend asked him to teach her how to play one of his favorite games. He
runs his game only to find out all his saved files were erased. At some point, Henry went to his sound proof,
surround sound, amazingly safe basement to play in surround sound in peace. Moments
after he read the Yahoo news clip about the ongoing nuclear threats on his
laptop connected to his HD flat screen, a nuclear bomb hit.
He regains consciousness, alone, his laptop by his side, the screen
glaring at his dusty face.
Finding himself totally alone in a
shattered world with food to last him a lifetime, but no one to share it with,
Bemis succumbs to despair. As he prepares to commit suicide using a handgun he has found, Bemis sees the ruins of the game
store he always goes to for all the games
in the distance. Investigating, he finds that the game discs are still intact and readable; all the games he could ever hope for are his for the playing, and (as he gazes upon a huge fallen pile
of hard disk drives) learns that he has
all the hard disk space in the world
to play them without needing to delete.
His despair gone, Bemis contentedly
sorts the games he looks forward to
reading for years to come. Just as he bends down to pick up the first game, his laptop screen suddenly turns of,
finally running out of power. In shock,
he checks his battery and tries to shake it in hope that it would have
power again, "That's not fair.
That's not fair at all. There was space
now. There was all the space I
needed...! That's not fair!", and bursts into tears, surrounded by games he now can never play.
The best laid plans of mice and
men...and Henry Bemis...the small man in the laptop who wanted nothing but more space. Henry Bemis, now just a part of a smashed landscape, just a piece of
the rubble, just a fragment of what man has deeded to himself. Mr. Henry
Bemis...in the Twilight Zone.
*copied and roughly paraphrased from Time Enough At Last plot from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Enough_at_Last
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