Detonation Event

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The moderator, host of a gossip show that surpassed all news programs in ratings, squared his million-dollar face to the camera and smiled as he reminded himself the life insurance policy would actually pay out twenty million, regardless of manner of death. He hated to leave his cats, but they would be well cared for. He felt no such regret for the studio security team—stroked by scantily clad assistants, pictured and autographed—who would lose their jobs upon review of footage showing him artfully skirting the bomb detectors.

…if they survived.

He winked at one of them, just off camera.

“Now I don’t know a bit from a byte unless it has teeth,” he said from the crystal lectern at center stage. “But I’m told the first assignment of an information technology student is to code a greeting of ‘Hello, World’ into the computer. So, in that spirit, Hello, World!”

The studio audience applauded dutifully.

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