/authors/flea/Recent content in Flea on Gromet's Plaza ArchiveHugoen-usMon, 20 May 2019 00:00:00 +0000/stories/2019/05/20/everything-you-always-wanted/Mon, 20 May 2019 00:00:00 +0000/stories/2019/05/20/everything-you-always-wanted/<p>You finally have everything you always wanted. You’re not human anymore.</p> <p>You rub your new body up and down. It’s perfect, slender, and shiny, and it’s all yours. You’ve got a small access panel in your lower back. It contains your SRPI port, some status lights, and your power and reset buttons, all locked up with a key hidden in a place only your girlfriend Liz knows about. Even you can’t get in. You’re designed this way so a stranger can’t change your settings after they have been set and the panel has been locked back in place.</p>