“You can change your mind like you change the channels of a television set,” the shopkeeper told Lizzy. “You select the channel. I provide the remote control.”
To me she was the kind of girl you’d dream about – a pedigree feline with a wit to match. To her I was the kind of guy she’d scream at – an obedient lapdog to carry and fetch. She knew my name. Or at least she knew I existed and every now and then she’d let me see one of those smiles a bee would mistake for honey.
But then she started skipping shifts, her grades fell off and her attitude toward me flushed itself down the toilet. All because of The Electric Picture Shop.
Waldo Fobgib’s Electric Picture shop was published in 2011 in issue three of Scifantastic magazine. Back in the day when the internet was just past dial-up, when mobile phones were a thing of wonder, and a Pocket PC was considered state of the art. Many of the ideas I experimented with here went on to form the building blocks for The Angel of the Circuit Board.
