Story nr. 1
From Civilmedia
The park was crowded with kids and mothers on this Sunday morning. 0/1 sat on a bench opposite the fountain and brought the cup to its lips. It could enjoy some fresh air for the first time in months. It looked at the golden leaves falling off the trees and took a deep breath. It was safe now. The police was after 1, but as long as it stayed 0, it would be safe.
That was the reason why the government tried to ban binary system and prohibit it totally. Hexadecimal is easier to spy. Citizens were able to switch between 0 or 1 so fast, easily and cheap. Kim, the big Leader, started huge propaganda with intention to make citizens believe hexadecimal is better for them than binary. Kim was doing good job but there were always still some outlaws like 0/1 - with a civic name "V". V stopped using its ASCI name, it became too dangerous in this world. They even changed names of towns from ASCI to hexadecimal form. Salzburg became 0HID2H8. "It is a mad world", 0/1 was telling to itself in its mind.
I'll stay hidden and keep up 00000000. My body will change, my throat will enlarge, all the small knives they implanted in my chest will stick into me, try to break out my skin and make hooks into the roads so I will be trapped. 00 will adopt a new walk, keep the hair and ooozing spit from creeping out. The 11111. It's not safe to change so often, to shift and rebody, but until I get to the mountain V, I will have no choice. Kim is waiting for me to bring this cargo and already the time is too late.
All of a sudden, the 0000's and 1s melted into the ground, they committed an act of self-annihilation, oooozing into the earth. Their job had been done. In the meantime, the wind blew and leaves danced, creating a whirlwind that took V to the mountain to meet with Kim. V was joyous that day, closed in glorious red and pink sparkles, like a drag queen from New York in the early days of the 21st century. They carried sweet drops of innocence in the spikes of their high heels, which they dropped at people's heads when they had the opportunity to see them. V was trying to impress Kim, it was true, but they were also an important memory – the way they embodied history, remembrance – the refusal to forget. Yes, this was the future but V could not dispense with the past.
However, there was no doubt that the past had no problem at all with dispensing with V. Except for the police, who technically still followed xer around the Salzuniverse, yet in practice was lost in the hexadecimal hell as much as everyone else and did nothing; the past really was ready to let V embody yet another immediate ad hoc being. V's change was so profound that Kim didn't even recognize xer. Kim was positive that the glittery creature which appeared next to her as in a dream-cloud, multicoloured and wet with sweat, was in fact a cop in disguise. Yes, they were paranoid times, no doubt about it. And yet, how could you not trust the sensual looping that was there between them - a technical and practical fact. Kim turned around, looked at V and slowly nodded..."Let's go," said V, "Don't ask me where, let's just go..."
"As long as it's not Salzburg 2009, I am fine with it."
"And so, they left, with nothing but trust holding them together".
"Thrust... what does it mean?"
She was always thinking... She was not paranoid, she was right, V was a cop, her V was abducted to LINZ 2009 – he was suffering – LINZ Kulturhauptstadt 2009... No!!!! She noticed, the creature was a cop and she was very intelligent, than she could help V to bring him back not to Salzburg, not to Linz, but to another planet, the planet they came from.
