Quote:“Well, I can’t blame your mom for that,” the boy replied. She shrugged, shaking her head as they followed the rest of the students inside, the morning rush before the first bell carrying them along. “Everyone is kind of freaked out about that. The news is coming up with some really stupid ideas why it’s so late.”
“Not as stupid as PHO has managed,” Chris said from behind them, having overheard. “Or that weird site, the new one...”
Carlos looked back at him. “SpiceBottles?”
“That’s the one. Crazy people, they make PHO look normal,” Chris chuckled. “Half the time they’re trying to weaponize cinnamon or something, the other half they’re screaming about politics.”
Despite herself Vicky giggled. “I heard a rumor that site is run by the government who set it up so people would brainstorm new military ideas without realizing it,” she commented with a small grin.
“Yeah, that sounds… unlikely,” Chris replied, returning her look. “Where did you hear that?”
“That rumor site. Insufficient Veracity. They’re full of that sort of thing. PHO has an entire section dedicated to trashing their paranoid delusions.”
From the latest chapter of Distance Learning for Fun and Profit, a fic posted... on SpaceBattles and Sufficient Velocity.