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    Deletion
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    Deletion

    By Nicholas Stillman

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    A meteor swarm threatens the world in an era nearly prepared for it. Earth’s missile-to-meteoroid defense system can only work under a global super-infrastructure, the most data-guzzling network ever built. Gillis, a steadfast but overworked government agent, must stomp down the most egregious wasters of sever space. In the desperate month before Meteor Day, the best methods for data deletion involve cunning, coercion, and new levels of police intimidation.

    The masses, however, have grown litigious and spoiled in an age of extreme internet addiction and ravenous data use. As police posturing and encroachment fail to free up server space, Gillis must confront the most odious data gluttons alive—scammers who have the fan base, funds, and lawyers to keep the life-saving missiles grounded. With his own family joining the millions at risk on Meteor Day, Gillis makes a few deletions off the record. The erasures may just include the law, morality, and human life.

    Get “Deletion” now, and find out who survives when data becomes deadly.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherStillman Sci-Fi
    Release dateFeb 14, 2018
    ISBN9781386530909
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    Nicholas Stillman

    Nicholas Stillman writes dark but entertaining science fiction. His weekly short stories and collections aim for variety and novelty with fun and thought-provoking twists. They often branch into dystopia, crime, horror, medical fiction, black comedy, romance, adventure, adult, and the completely new. Some of Stillman’s themes include civilizational collapse, addictions of the future, medicine in space, dark psychology, and the terrifying fate of our healthcare. Stillman offers monthly free short stories at StillmanSciFi.com. Get yourself free, easily accessible short stories for life--the perfect way for any science fiction fan to spend time on commutes or at home.

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      THE VOICE IN THE HELMET arrived whenever it wanted, and it always added pressure. To Gillis, the words felt like added weight to his already superfluous riot gear. His ballistic vest weighed eight pounds more after last week’s mandatory upgrade, and keeping the same footspeed simply piled more ache on his lower back. It felt like a sort of torque action down there, and he couldn’t even reach back to rub the area. He could only keep weaving through the mob of dumpy protesters and lifelong internet addicts. The voice came in the noisiest cluster of them and with more weight than ever before.

      We got nothing, Gillis, Trenholm buzzed in his helmet radio. No use-of-force amendments, no mass arrest warrants, no new surveillance powers. It’ll take another year to enact that stuff. And we have one month. You’ve got to free up more server space today, right now. If our agents can’t do it, the missiles won’t even know what to hit up there.

      Trenholm cut out without waiting for acknowledgment. He would only hear

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