michiko's life
D.
Sensing a strong disconnect between the ethereal world she worked in day after day, full of refined contingencies between delicate components, always subject to slight offset, continually gaining velocity while only becoming more deeply intwined with such whimsical data as the current 2nd favorite sweet soda in sector 77-D, and the rest of her time with its sexual and fashion concerns, Michiko couldn't go to sleep tonight, her head buzzing with vague worry.