The Memories of Frances X

By Josefina Lindte

The reality of the future is much bleaker than any of us could have hoped for, or imagined. That doesnt mean that people dont stop fighting for their dreams. But beware the cost of failure
One young woman must pay the ultimate price for her freedom. Join her as she shares her words and thoughts, in her last days on this earth.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Oct 11, 2012
• ISBN: 9781477267899

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The Memories of

Frances X

EDITED BY JOSEFINA LINDTE

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This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, names, incidents, organizations, and dialogue in this novel are either the products of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously.

© 2012 by Josefina Lindte. All rights reserved.

No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any means without the written permission of the author.

Published by AuthorHouse 10/03/2012

ISBN: 978-1-4772-6790-5 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-4772-6789-9 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2012916734

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Editor’s Note: I have tried to preserve the writing style of this manuscript. It is almost identical to the journal I received. Any and all edits made are my own and made for typographical clarity of the writer’s cultural context. To this end, I have also included at the beginning of the manuscript a lexicon section and notes on grammatical irregularities. Many of the definitions come from my observations of Frances X’s interactions with others. They are merely my interpretations and some readers may (rightfully) disagree with my definitions.

I have refrained from touching the ordering of the aphorisms to preserve the writer’s original intent.

May that tortured soul rest in peace.

-Josefina Lindte

Facility Case Manager

Lexicon:

- Antag = antagonist

- Bots = generic name for robots, usually referring to nanobots

- Chems = chemicals; used in drug slang to imply artificial production or elevated levels, for use as intoxicants

- Crawler = mid-to large-sized ship used for catching fish and preparing them for human consumption

- Doser = junkie; abuser of substances for sole purpose of intoxication

- Edups = educational uppers; drugs which are commonly used as boosters during study or other periods of intense concentration, regardless of their original intended use

- Enviro = environment

- Epc = entertainment personal computer; computer dedicated to video games, films, etc, rather than having work-related or more general capabilities

- Fliks = films. Observed through uplink; the story is told through all senses, though the name refers to the visual precursor of this modern medium

- Floatways = floating highways

- Frau = short for fish reproduction & advancement unit; a ship which promotes the return of various forms of extinct, endangered, and important marine life to the oceans. In essence, the opposite of a crawler

- Freefloating = floating freely, without constraints; commonly refers to leaves or feathers in the wind

- Full-access society = one in which an overwhelming percentage (> 60%) of the population has permanent hive-mind access. The equivalent of first world; accounts for a quarter of human societies

- Funds = money, payment

- G-mem = genetic memory; common way to transmit pre-selected cultural and social beliefs

- Godsends = Archaic word referring to prophets (religious use) and other promoters of peace and the positive development of humanity

- Grama = grandmother, emphasis on pronunciation

- Grampairts = grandparents

- Hard crash = a forced disconnect when fully connected to the hive-mind, which causes brain death

- Hir = him/her, used when gender is ambiguous; could be either one or the other

- Hirs = his/hers, same conditions as with hir

- Hirself = him/herself, same conditions as with hir

- Hive-mind = a virtual network connecting all of humanity to one another and allowing access to vast caches of information, covering every subject imaginable. An immersive, species-wide network of information and content

- Housing decks = Apartment buildings, multi-tiered housing; more expensive ones float above the ground

- Inks = common name given to a cocktail of robotic systems that are too small to be seen; when inside the human body, they satisfy all computer-based needs and are able to manipulate certain bodily processes. This common name stems from their most telling feature: they are accessed through touching one’s own skin, and once active in the epidermis, take on the appearance of traditional ink-based tattoos

- Inking = exploring the limits of inks in a social setting; seen as deviant behavior by most. Also refers to the manipulation by dosers of their biochemical states using inks

- Kaygs = kilograms

- Lifevessel = semi-religious term for the human body, focusing on it as an external component of the self

- Logoff = good-bye

- Lo-pry = inexpensive, cheap; an item that is on discount or not the latest model

- Lobo-pros = lobotomy process

- Lowrisen = as verb: rising up form an evil/socially destructive place; as noun: antonym of Godsend, someone who promotes lasting damage to and evil upon humanity

- Nanos = nanobots; commonly