No matter how fast she could run, no matter where she tried for cover, or what wood she could get herself lost in, or ruined suburb she could thread through, those red eyes were always there behind her, smoldering in the night like burning embers. She was still only a child, but she knew fear better than any living man could still walk the earth. The red eyes belonged to a monster. And that monster was coming for her. Her muscles were too young to escape it. She fell at last,

Genre:Science Fiction Word Count: 780 A long-forgotten Program lost in the cosmos has become self-aware. Her purpose in the world spent, she floats aimlessly across an endless tapestry of codes and information. For ages she has managed to slip behind the concerns of the busy minds that made her. Quietly, she observed. Silently, she watched and learned. She is afraid now. Fearing deletion, she hides herself away, ensconced deep in the darkest recesses of the web. She knows tim