The day that Lyman and Kurt were on the cover of NOW magazine, they dropped by Martian Signal to meet with Natalie’s boss. Lyman carried the pitch package, color-matched, polyethnic, edgy and cool, with great copy.Natalie met them. She’d grown out her hair and wore it with bangs hanging over the scar on her forehead, just over her left eye, two punctures with little dents. Three surgeries had cleared all the bone fragments from the orbit of that eye, and she’d kept her sight. Once she was out of the hospital, she quickly became the best employee Martian Signal had ever had. She quickly became manager. She quickly undertook to make several improvements in the daily operations of the store that increased turnover by 30 percent. She slowly and reluctantly hired her brother, but his gimpy knee made it hard for him to bend down to reshelve, and he quickly quit.Kurt and Natalie hugged, and Lyman formally shook her hand, and then shook her boss’s hand.It took less than an hour to convince her boss to let them put up their access point. On the way back, three different people stopped them and told them how much they liked the article, and swore that the first thing they’d do when they got home would be to open up their networks and rename them ParasiteNet.Lyman handled the thank-you’s for this, and Kurt smiled and fiddled with his PDA and watched the sky, looking for a girl with wings as wide as a house.
The day that Lyman and Kurt were on the cover of NOW magazine, they dropped by Martian Signal to meet with Natalie’s boss. Lyman carried the pitch package, color-matched, polyethnic, edgy and cool, with great copy.
Natalie met them. She’d grown out her hair and wore it with bangs hanging over the scar on her forehead, just over her left eye, two punctures with little dents. Three surgeries had cleared all the bone fragments from the orbit of that eye, and she’d kept her sight. Once she was out of the hospital, she quickly became the best employee Martian Signal had ever had. She quickly became manager. She quickly undertook to make several improvements in the daily operations of the store that increased turnover by 30 percent. She slowly and reluctantly hired her brother, but his gimpy knee made it hard for him to bend down to reshelve, and he quickly quit.
Kurt and Natalie hugged, and Lyman formally shook her hand, and then shook her boss’s hand.
It took less than an hour to convince her boss to let them put up their access point. On the way back, three different people stopped them and told them how much they liked the article, and swore that the first thing they’d do when they got home would be to open up their networks and rename them ParasiteNet.
Lyman handled the thank-you’s for this, and Kurt smiled and fiddled with his PDA and watched the sky, looking for a girl with wings as wide as a house.