Plugs

Alex Dally MacFarlane’s story “The Devonshire Arms” is available online at Clarkesworld.

Ken Brady’s latest story, “Walkers of the Deep Blue Sea and Sky” appears in the Exquisite Corpuscle anthology, edited by Jay Lake and Frank Wu.

Jonathan Wood’s story “Notes on the Dissection of an Imaginary Beetle” from Electric Velocipede 15/16 is available online.

Susannah Mandel’s short story “The Monkey and the Butterfly” is in Shimmer #11. She also has poems in the current issues of Sybil’s Garage, Goblin Fruit, and Peter Parasol.

Disconnection Issues

by Jason Fischer

Mr TempID#701536
(formerly known as Cyrus J Willard)
c/o YMCA Hostel
55 Jeff Kennett Boulevard
NEW MELBOURNE VIC 9001
AUSTRALIA

September 17, 2078

RE: DISCONNECTION ISSUES ARISING FROM NON-PAYMENT OF FEES

Dear Mr TempID#701536,

As per our recent correspondence, we reiterate that your identity has been revoked. You have now exhausted all avenues of legal appeal and we wish to remind you of the following:

• Your rights to the identity known as Cyrus J Willard have been onsold to a new client, along with all subsidiary rights (domicile, domestic partnership, employment and credit history).
• Following a number of highly inappropriate confrontations, please find enclosed a Restraining Order forbidding you from contacting or approaching Cyrus J Willard, Stacey Willard and Cyrus J Willard Jr.
• Any further attempted contact with Stacey Willard may be considered grounds for a fault-based divorce, in which instance Cyrus J Willard will automatically receive 100% of the marital assets as per the pre-nuptial agreement signed by yourself.

Following the IMMEDIATE and FULL payment of your outstanding debt, we can provide you with a new identity. You can choose from the following packages:

a) Basic – The Basic package locks in your TempID for a low monthly fee, allowing you to access basic government services, membership of financial institutions and voting rights.
b) FreshStart – With a FreshStart account you can begin life anew, under the (available) name of your choice! Live the old way, establishing relationships, employment and credit.
c) LuckyDip – The LuckyDip package provides you with a pre-loved identity. Want to be a doctor, sanitation technician or public servant? You will be provided with all aspects of a random defaulter’s identity.

Please note that your TempID has been provided to you gratis during this difficult time of transition, but will expire in one month. Non-identity is a federal offence.

Sincerely,

Customer Care,
Identicaticorp

3 Responses to “Disconnection Issues”

  1. Saurio Says:

    November 11th, 2009 at 2:47 pm

    Hi:
    I took the liberty to translate to Spanish and to publish this story in Breves no tan breves
    You can find it here.

    Thanks.

    BTW, I’ll keep translating material from all the authors of “The daily cabal” if you don’t mind.

  2. Saurio Says:

    November 11th, 2009 at 2:49 pm

    Sorry, the link didn’t appear. Click here

  3. Jason Fischer Says:

    November 11th, 2009 at 10:28 pm

    Thanks Saurio, what an honour! Thanks for the translation, and I’m sure none of the other Cabalists mind if you help to spread their work to new readers 🙂