Long after his death, a digitally remastered Ol’ Green Eyes was wowing audiences again with gyrating hips and glorious guitar riffs. Girls born decades after the original performances screamed and tried to rush the stage. The star, haloed in blue light, paid them no mind.
The tours were a sell-out nationwide. But Ol’ Green Eyes weren’t very interactive. Not until Frank Gainsborough had the idea of adding a connectome. It weren’t the original one, of course. That were long gone. But a great nephew made a reasonable match, right?
Now, when the girls scream, he leers and hauls them to his dressing room.
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Neil MacDonald Author 
It’s all rock n roll, Neil
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Ain’t it just
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Fascinating, history and science and bit of music all wrapped up in flash. I liked it.
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Thanks so much, Michael
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Dear Neil,
There’s something delightfully creepy about this. It would make an interesting sci-fi thriller on screen.
Shalom,
Rochelle
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Thanks so much, Rochelle
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The imagery reminds me a bit of seeing the holographic Elvis onstage during a scene in Blade Runner 2049.
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That was the image in my mind too
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More lifelike than ever before!!! Excellent!
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Thanks so much, Violet
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That went very sinister at the end, still if they want the authentic original experience…!
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More authentic than they could ever have dreamt
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And as a rock star, it is “permitted” to haul chicks up to their room… eesh.
Good one!
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Mandatory, I think. Thanks, Dale
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True dat!
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Best job that deadbeat great nephew ever had and I bet he ain’t giving up that gig!
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Not with all the side benefits
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The nephew’s gotta leer…um, live. Fun.
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Thanks, Stu
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Sometimes we forget that what’s missing in technology, we’d really rather do without. Interesting idea, trying to program in sexual harrassment!
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I think the sexual harassment was an unintended by-product
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It seems the Kings isn’t dead, after all 🙂
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not any longer
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Frank sounds like a thoroughly nasty piece of work. I hope it wasn’t too long before one of his victims called time on his activities.
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Frank’s just this guy, you know? Trying to make a living, like all of us
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Connectome?
LOL, he’s riding on ancestral coat tails, but I’ll bet the girls don’t particularly mind.
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Thanks, Alice
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Love the mysterious and sinister feel.
Very compelling.
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The ending was unexpected but its kind of true with rock stars and movie stars
Well written piece.
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Thanks, Kislaya
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Legend of Ol’ Green Eyes live on through his nephew and some digital remake.
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Yup
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Even in VR there will be misogyny… did you hear about the little sweet bot released into twitter to “learn”… the poor girl-bot turned a full blood racist in a few weeks…
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Yes I did read about the racist AI
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Oh dear, sounds like the great nephew’s brain wasn’t wired in quite the same way… (or was it?!)
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I think probably in exactly the same way
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Chilling and clever, Neil. Seem the #metoo movement did not last? His leer lasts.
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Thanks so much, Dawn. How do you call out a hologram?
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Exactly. They will find a solution to any issue.
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I learn so much from your stories each week. Another great one, Neil! 🙂
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Thanks so much, Brenda
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I’ve never heard of a connectome – I hope it’s not a robot?
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A connectome, by analogy with a genome, is the pattern of connections in a brain
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Hi Neil! The nephew cashing in on the uncle’s glory.
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Or perhaps the nephew being exploited to preserve the uncle’s glory?
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Either seems unfair – perhaps the nephew thinks there are enough perks though.
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Are we heading to a future where we will be unable to determine what is real, and live in a kind of revamped soup? A good read.
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There’s no certainty already about what is real. See Trump’s tweets
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Glory remains and story says!
The last line is something.
Time to take credit 🙂
Car In Cyclone – Anita
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Thanks so much, Anita
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Oooooo creepy. Love the sci-fi take on this. I’m hoping the detective is a noir style robot 🙂
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I think it and we all takes place inside a computer simulation on a distant galaxy
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Oooooo I totally agree
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The future scares me, this hasn’t helped!!
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I think the point is that the future is what we make it
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I understand, but it’s what the people in charge make that scares me
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So many different things mixed so well together. I see it all in my head, bright colors and ugly faces.
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Thanks so much
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Ahh, creepy, scary and brilliant. So many possibilities for that combination of hologram and connectome.
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Thanks so much
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Great depiction of the way the world’s gone/going, Neil
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Does not compute. Does not compute
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Nothing changes then? Scary. I note your point about the future being what we make it – and that’s scary too. Great story, Neil.
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Thanks so ,much, Margaret
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Very well written; very creepy and extremely unnerving!
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Thanks so much, Clare
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You have to give the public what they want, right? Creepy and effective Neil
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Thanks so much, Lynn
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My pleasure
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Good – and with a brutal ending
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Thanks so much, Jennifer
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How nice to ride to stardom on the coat tails of your great uncle.
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We can all dream
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You reeled me in with that last line, Neil. Well done.
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Thanks so much, Kelvin
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Fascinating and creepy. Really enjoyed the mixture of sci-fi and history.
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Thanks so much. Did I invent a new genre?
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Perhaps!
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it surely left me confused
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Sorry
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Now that was an imaginative take. The end seemed quite realistic. 🙂
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Thanks so much, Sascha
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Wonderfully sinister!
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Thanks so much, Lisa.
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Delightfully creepy (do those two words go together?). Liked this si-fi take on the prompt.
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Thanks so much. There’s no connection between the storie (other than my mind)
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