8 years earlier...
"With the recent boom of the rest population, " the newscaster says on the television, "companies are now experimenting with possible ways to capture the rodents and generate power, some trying to even have rat treadmill or hampster wheels, like the new startup company, Rat Res-"
The TV switches off with a click, cutting off the newscaster's words. Todd Harrison, CEO of UniCuff leans back in his chair and sighs.
The world just goes on and on, with nothing happening anymore... he thinks, picking up his collapsed Pad, which has an image of a thumb on it.
A new message? He puts his thumb on the scanner and the screen flickers white before the Pad uncollapses and turns from a two-inch by two-inch black square to the full 8-inch by 11-inch paper-thin screen that is his personal Pad.
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Life Down the Gutter
FantasyA young boy of only 10 ducked behind a corner, panting. *I think I lost them,* he thought. Life in the Rat Tunnels is hard, but the Rat Catchers only make it harder. But he had an advantage. Rats were able to see in the dark, and Catchers can't. He...
