A long black cord. "Order please!" Her voice he considered was unnecessarily loud. He looked up.

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The ratio of applicants to indentured trainees was enormous. For three years he lived with his cadre in a dormitory singing the company hymns in formation each morning and usually managing to go over the compound fence at least once a month for girls or the holodrome. The indenture would have terminated on his twentieth birthday leaving him eligible for full employee status. A week before his nineteenth birthday with two stolen credit cards and a change of clothes he went over the fence for the last time. He arrived in California three days before the chaotic New Secessionist regime collapsed. In San Francisco warring splinter groups hit and ran in the streets. One or another of four different 'provisional' city governments had done such an efficient job of stockpiling food that almost none was available at street level. Parker spent the last night of the revolution in a burned-out Tucson suburb making love to a thin teenager from New Jersey who explained.
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