"Geek Gone Mad"-Opening scene

From: Greatcod (Greatcod_at_Yahoo.com)
Date: 09/28/04

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    Date: 27 Sep 2004 17:31:54 -0700

    The sun rose over the satellite dish on the neighbor's mobile home,
    and flooded the living room of Swegs' 1976 12 wide. His head was on
    the keyboard of his computer. He began to wake. The foam from his lips
    had dripped into the keys during his sleep. He rubbed his eyes, put on
    his horn-rimmed glasses, and tried to get back on-line. He
    couldn't-the spittle had frozen the keys, and paralyzed the mouse.
            He got up, and tucked his filthy T-shirt into his coffee stained
    sweatpants. He walked slowly to the windows of the 12 wide, over the
    bodies of dozens of insects that once were his pets—live healthy
    beings destroyed by his increasing neglect of anything but his
    obsession with trolling.
          At the window, he began to sob. "How could the God that makes
    creatures
    as beautiful as the Borrellia make people as repulsive as those Lyme
    Loonies?"
          He dried his eyes and reflected on his lost career. "I could
    have won the Nobel Prize. Well, maybe I could'a got nominated. I
    could'a been Somebody, I could'a been a Contender."
            He tried to think positive, like his Therapist had advised him.
    "I'll call Allen." In reality, even Allen didn't talk to him any more.
    Then he fell into a heap, on the floor, next to his beloved little
    friends. Another day in the hellish existence of the once promising
    micro-biologist had begun.

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