Short story: high-school dreams hijacked and put online

By Cory Doctorow at 1:51 pm Tuesday, May 2

Today on Futurismic, a great, imaginative short story available both as text and podcast. The story is Eyelid Movies by Will McIntosh, and it's a nasty little piece about a kid whose erotic dreams about his classmates are hijacked by hackers and broadcast over the net, exposing him to ridicule and abuse. There are lots of nice grace-notes and stomach-churning eyeball kicks in this one:

"Your dreams were on the net last night. One of the pirated dream-channels must have got hold of your private code."

"What?" Casey said. "No way." He felt his bowels loosen. His dreams? It was a joke. Rob was a little gremlin who did this sort of stuff all the time. "You're full of shit."

Rob wiped his eyes. The grin returned. "Champ said you dreamed you were making out with Lauren Meyer."

The dream came back with a jolt. Lauren Meyer, with her tattooed eyes and her shaved head, sitting in Casey's lap, kissing him, licking his neck... "It wasn't me," he said, his voice a whine.

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