Author:
Mario Brash is a reader, writer, coffee enthusiast, and huge nerd of many things. 

Jessica Leibniz tried being a normal teenager, but unlike most teenagers, she can tell time without a clock. She still wears a watch, but it comes with incriminating A.I. software. It's part of her fashion sense-if you call a mix of 80's nostalgia, geekism, and jagged hair a fashion sense. Otherwise, you have a normal, nineteen-year-old girl who delivers pizza and tacos by day and hacks cybersecurity networks by night. All the while, she turns heads, probably because she performs her job on a gravity board, which is relatively unorthodox in a future where aliens rule the planet.

The alien takeover could have ended more violently, but there's irony in how efficient and peaceful Earth has become a hundred years later. Corporations still reign supreme, but aliens lie at the top of the social ladder. Azareans they call them, overlords who've constructed a new kind of city for the modern world. The Eden: a modern megapolis.

Accustomed to life in the modern city, Jessica has learned to embrace challenge when it comes her way. Without a cause, she confides in her three friends or smacks into boredom. And when she seamlessly cracks an uncrackable corporate security algorithm, nothing makes sense. Faced with world-turning revelations, the life she's led seems trivial next to a hundred-year lie and tragedy.

Hacking the Sun

Raptor's eyebrows crushed together. "What are you doing?"


"Getting my vectors." Lullabied by quick beats, Jess pondered the state of traffic as she mumbled, "A-polar-signal-could-be-redistributed-through-a-small-slit-in-the-command-console." She no longer felt crunched by the weight of anxiety, or Raptor's intense gaze as he interrogated his microphone. Upon constructing the scenario in her head, the next series of events played before they happened:


On the superhighway, two Azareans exit their vehicle to inspect Beelz's truck. The Enforcer reaches Dexter and Ike's car. Beelz... Beelz neutralizes both Azareans inspecting her truck Ð She finds a way; she does it discreetly. Ike and DexterÑIke knocks on the Devil's door.


Chapter 43: Everyone Agreed To Be Cool Part 2