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Alan P. Scott offers up a second 100 word story for your enlightenment.

Reshmi - flowering, sixteen - sells code from her loom. "Programs Woven Here," reversing Jacquard since age thirteen. Geeks buzz around her.

Madhukar offers his tattered web browser.

"It needs patched."

Reshmi dimples.

"More a whole garment, think I. But no worries. It will be perfect."

Madhukar plunges.

"And...

"Would you dance with me at festival tomorrow?"

He is her first.

"Yes."

*

But she doesn't. Her stall empty, ransacked. Madhukar receives email with one large attachment: rewoven, as promised.

Madhukar clicks ever deeper into the deepest web. Madhukar can go anywhere. It's perfect - and he realizes who Reshmi angered.

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