Happy Cyborgs Split the Winnings

$550 million Powerball win. We hacked Bank of America for the money to buy the tickets. “Artificial intelligence,” they said. Hell of a lot better than the real thing.

What do we do now? I say we buy a pet giraffe and a couple of small Caribbean nations, just in case the IRS has an eye on our current overseas tax shelter.

After all, it’s only human.

Brad Rose was born and raised in southern California, and lives in Boston. Brad’s poetry and fiction have appeared in: The Baltimore Review, Off the Coast, Third Wednesday, The Potomac, San Pedro River Review, Santa Fe Literary Review, Barely South Review, Right Hand Pointing, Sleet, Boston Literary Magazine, Monkeybicycle, Camroc Press Review, Short, Fast, and Deadly, and other publications. Links to his poetry and fiction can be found at: http://bradrosepoetry.blogspot.com. His chapbook of miniature fiction, Coyotes Circle the Party Store, can be read at https://sites.google.com/site/bradroserhpchapbook. Audio recordings of a selection of Brad’s published poetry can be heard here: https://soundcloud.com/bradrose1.

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