COMPUTER GAMES, short story, by Viviana Claudia Giménez®

COMPUTER GAMES

by Viviana Claudia Giménez®

     

      Somehow I had been turned on.  What to do now?  At first, I opened up a file that I called "Friends".  Actually, I hesitated before giving it a name at all.  But it just didn't seem to deserve the generic "Untitled 1"  Still, . . . "Friends"?   It would have been better to call it some other name, such as "Acquaintances" (too long for a file name, though).  Whatever . . .

      Soon and unexpectedly, the content didn't make sense under its original name, so I deleted the original title and called it "Lovers?"  Yes, with a question mark of uncertainty.

      I kept trying to save this file, but in order to do that, my only will and desire were not enough, so I ended up having to quit without saving changes.  I was expected to delete this file altogether, forget that it had ever existed and go back and reopen the one called "Friends".  But I decided this time I would put a question mark at the end of this one too because I just couldn't forget about those brief moments when I had been adding info to the "Lovers?" file.  Well, this one didn't last either; I quit again and wanted to shut down the system.  Then, I thought, maybe I should leave a window open - the "Lovers?" file was created again, with a few changes.  Too many to maintain that name, so I quit again.  And now?  What to call this new file?  I'm the one supposed to be in the field of language, shouldn't I know the right word for everything?  He's the one in computer science, shouldn't he be able to figure out the whole system?