Escape-Pod. Summer Flashback.

Escape-odd. Summer Flashback. Episode 736. Technor Rat.

By Brad Halford. Welcome back to school everyone.

For the first three weeks of this month we're taking a look at Cyberpunk as a sub-genre

as expressed through three of our previously published stories.

Last week Kaleida Muhammad Ali's Boris's bar taught us about intimacy and how the sub-genre monetizes

it and uses it as a motivation for character. This week, well, this week we're hitting the streets with the techno rat by Brad Halford.

Brad is an archaeologist, teacher, writer, and traveler.

Combining them all is his life. He puts his experiences mostly into his fictional characters.

Your narrator this time is 2012 Mee.

So, without further ado, let's go for a walk with the techno rat,

because it's story time.

Technow Rat by Brad Halfed

West London was by Brad Halford.

West London was, as always, a buzz.

Even at 4 a.m. on a chilly November Tuesday, electric motor cars were down Kings Road, zipping people along, early to work, late from parties.

The residential side streets, however, were quiet.

Lined with parked cars, occasional street lamps and darkened flats, they dozed peacefully

on eight houses huddled in gracefully curving cues, awaiting the sunrise with little attention

to the two figures loitering outside their narrow iron-fenced entryways.

There it is, isn't it?

The screw on your figure said, pointing to a parked car.

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