Drabble: 8-bit Carl

Carl couldn’t get hired. He was tired of hearing “not enough relevant experience” when he visited the employment office.

One day Carl’s morning coffee came out of the spigot in tiny cubes. “Huh,” he grunted. When he collected the mail, the letterbox looked vaguely as if it were made of LEGO. “Odd,” said Carl.

He drove his suddenly blocky Tercel to the employment office for his weekly rejection meeting. There, on a rapidly cubifying notice board he saw “Wanted: Human General to Defend Earth Against Space Invaders”. Carl looked at his newly pixelated hands. “Maybe I should apply,” he thought.

 

Illustration by Benjamin Allison (see all the illustrators)

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