Obituary: Death of a Computer

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February 10, 2021

On the evening of February 9, 2021, a gray laptop computer was found dead in its room. Apparently it had been dead for several days. When authorities attempted to revive it, the power button would not respond, although the battery was at full power.

The cause of death has been speculated to be a cup of water which fell on the keyboard last Saturday. It was working well afterward and its friends and family didn't see that anything was wrong. When the computer was dried out and put to sleep, it never woke up.

The green button was glowing to indicate that there was still some brain activity, but after some serious reflection on the part of the family, they decided to pull the plug and let the computer go.

The gray computer was a rebuilt dell laptop born on e-bay. It spent the last few years as a trusty assistant to horror author Julia Benally. It has produced a number of short stories, some of which are not yet published, and two books. The first book, the gray computer saw go off to glorious publication. It was working on the last of the second book and in the middle of the third book before its untimely and shocking demise.

It is survived by several USB drives and a string of music that escaped before its death.

Burial services for the computer were performed February 9, 2021 at ten PM.


Please pick up a copy of one gray computer's friends who are in mourning.

https://www.amazon.com/Kryne-Monsters-Demons-Mara-Duryea/dp/B08GV97VHF/



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