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Neural Energy Barrels

That's just sand she murmured.
In any case,
the main engines had a designated frequency.
Like the one I noted
on the components in more accessible locations
at the administrative centre,
all around the elevator
in the bottom third cubicle against the touch pad.
The counterweight cables running down the wall
impacted on the series of vertical components
to switch three micro scrambled
neural energy barrels.

These would be released almost instantly
and empty into the lowest aspects of this device
but it involves bright yellow flashes
bursting forth to bounce this signal
back up to the main database
As you know,
the small and flexible parts
in the smaller version
work like an umbrella,
a hemispherical trap door bends it down.
And then the radio chip signals
lower that bass pattern.

Squinting against the gusts
staring up at the mountains of colour monitors
behind the camp.
She picked at her cell phone
and tensely awaited the next hourly update,
the image jerked before refocusing,
as the camera stopped,
two inches above the waistband of her jeans.

Don't worry
he said
There must be something caustic in the dust.
In any case in a few minutes
it would be eight o'clock.
Whatever the explanation,
it was a real life tragedy unfolding
in front of the familiar landscape.
Maybe the zoom lens on one of the CC TV cameras
operating in the bars and offices and homes around England
can predict its course or its consequences.

I think we're making progress here.
We're not entirely certain, but
we believe that he's managed to set up a video link
to the piercings
in the adolescent roundness of her belly.
Good work.

The pair of them looked off camera and nodded.
The two men were gazing at the photograph.
Maybe it was the fact that on Friday night,
any Friday night,
he could watch the best shots of a white river of headlights
bursting out of the cloud mass in the shopping precinct.
Intercut with the other shopping precinct material,
a torrent of visceral images,
pissing on moral outrage.

The images came and went.
He played a few minutes worth of tape
over and over again.
Right now,
real babies were being monitored
by a gleaming galvanic skin glue
from the television sets.

A leftwards pan on the camera,
cutting to a view of two old ladies clapping.
We keep moving a microwave signal,
suspending subatomic particles
in a mostly futile attempt to keep it clear of rain.

I'm surprised they managed to land
without starting a preliminary scan
of the medulla oblongata
sited in the brains of. dogs and chimpanzees.
Respiration and cardiovascular activity information
was available to access
designating their vector as a purple line,
bearing down to the brown land, .
Perhaps, theoretically,
even so he couldn't imagine
what some of the equipment was designed to do.

When the computer came to life displaying a single line of text,
vulnerable inner ears received a heavy buffeting,
it fired up a buckling wave of nausea.
There's no way the standard set of resources
amass that kind of potential.
Apparently it's initialising a low level response
in eight thousand devices
spitting off a lot of amber scintillations
down across the circle
of commercial buildings and warehouses.
Catastrophic material failure can be ugly
even in a remote location.

The system produced a mild electric charge.
We don't know if cracks propagated in some rather critical locations
received simple binary codes
that were eating into the smart core in the generator building.
They're lucky that the equipment
didn't seem disturbed by the command prompt.

We need to anticipate all possibilities.
That's why the technical team
make air breathing cell coated wires
that are able to pull
enough useful information out of it.

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from The Pre​-​War Noise Encryption Standard, released February 3, 2023
Words and music by Nigel Ayers

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Nocturnal Emissions' Nigel Ayers has continued to work with a strong underground of cult support, avoiding music industry fashions, and following his own creative path he concentrated on creating a strong sense of a wilderness identity through sound.

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