One Month Later

The computer screen went black. I carefully turned around, wary of the bright lights. The pain and headaches were not present.

To my surprise the interviewers were no longer in the room with me. I waited a few minutes, and then decided to return to the waiting room.

I entered the waiting room and looked towards the security guard. A different security guard had taken his place, and gave a half-cheerful nod in my direction. I said something along the lines of:

“Hey, is um... Elaine around anywhere? I was doing the second part of an interview...”

He just shrugged and said:

“Well I think everyone left for the day. I can check our log of badge times.”

He rolled over to the computer in his office chair and punched a few keys.

“Yeah, they left a while ago. Should I leave a message?”

“Um,” I started in confusion. “Just tell them thanks for the interview... I guess.”


Well that went to shit, I thought. That game was fun as hell though, I wonder what sort of crazy juice they had me wired on. I swore my hand was still burning from taking a hit from that ax. I half expected it to be bleeding like something from The Matrix.


Anyway, that’s the story so far. Now over a month has passed, and I got a phone call just earlier today.

When they said my “test results” had come in. I had strained to think of what test I had taken. Drug test? STD? School? The recording had stated it was from Providence Industries and was a California number.

Providence Industries... hm.