The Digital Corpse
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Last published Thu, Jun 20, 2019
The Upload is a virtual world where consciousness can be transferred at death, granting eternal life to anyone able to pay the price. Flesh-and-blood people in the real world can enter as avatars and visit dearly departed loved ones, or indulge in expensive holidays to places that no longer exist or never existed in the first place. Anyone can be anyone else.
And someone has started killing them, digital and real alike. As detective Jake Andrews searches for the culprit, he uncovers a plot that's more than just random murders, more than a serial killer: someone wants to wipe out every person in the Upload.
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I started writing this story on my blog as a series of flash fiction pieces inspired by photo prompts. It's somewhat tangentially related to a novel I'm revising at the moment, but more on that later. This story is unfinished, and there are gaps between the portions that I have written, but I wanted to gather it in one place and keep going with it to see if something becomes of it. Let me know what you think.
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