From: c311b06@hawk.depaul.edu (Wesley Alan Brown)
Subject: [NEW STORY] Letter
Date: Fri Apr 28 21:42:37 MET DST 1995


                                     LETTER

                                     By Wes


A burned isolinear chip was found outside a townhouse in New Chicago.  After
some work, a scavenger was able to view its content:  a black and white video
transmission dated June 17, 2388, featuring a cyborg girl sitting on the bed
talking very low, crying.

This is the following transmission:


Kat:

	I went down by the beach today.  Remember?  Oak Street Beach?
The one you and I went to all the time when we were together?  The first place
we kissed in public?  The one where we made love under a burning sun and gray
skies?  Before we outgrew each other?

	It felt dead there.  It had been the first time I've been there since
you moved back to Mars.  Yeah, there were people there, having fun, making
out, acting stupid.  We did it too.

	For the first time in my life, I felt sick there.  I had gotten
jealous of people since you left.  I haven't gotten over you, Sayoko.
Have you gotten over me?

	I'm sure you have.  I never will.

	Don't ask me to throw out almost fifteen years of heaven, hell, war,
peace, sex(lots of that), blood, music, and life.  I won't do it, Kat, and if
you're any kind of person with feelings you won't either.

	I think we love each other too much for that to happen.

	Come home to me.  Please.....



The girl then screams at the top of her lungs and fires a plasma bolt from
her hand at the camera.  End transmission.


It is later discovered that the girl, Ria Donovan, went back to Oak Street
Beach, flung herself into the lake and drowned.  Her body was found
two days later.


fin
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