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Icebreaker

May 23, 2017 2 Comments

Icebreaker
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She sipped her martini. “I’m in security.”

“Surveillance systems?”

“Integrity management.”

I grinned. “I assure you I have no integrity at all.”

She laughed. “Companies hire me to confirm their employees are still who they say they are. If a different personality is loaded into someone’s wetware, you have no guarantee who’s behind their eyes.”

I checked my surroundings and my sidearm. The bar was crowded and noisy. Nobody would hear the gunshot; I’d be gone before they noticed the body. “Sounds interesting. So who hired you this time?”

Only then did I see her pistol pointing at me. “You did.”

By Ian Rennie

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  1. David Galef says

    May 23, 2017 at 7:01 am

    Fine flip at the end. Reminds me a bit of Jeffrey Whitmore’s “Bedtime Story,” though it goes in its own direction.

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  2. C L King (@CLKing_writes) says

    May 26, 2017 at 1:54 pm

    Nicely done.

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