Christopher Roberson

A Spider's Web

“Spider” is what he called himself. Little did he know that he’d be caught up in his own web. A hacker, known by the screen name “xX-kingSpider-Xx”, lived alone. The only sounds in his apartment were humming cpu fans and the soft clatter of fingers across a keyboard. Like his namesake, he navigated a complex network of wires and network cables that reached across his living room like an arachnid on a web. There was a laptop on the kitchen counter. There was a pair of cpu towers on the floor near a stack of obscure tech artifacts. A bin full of keyboards and old school ball mice sat next to a bunch of monitors on the living room coffee table. It would look like a mess to anyone who laid eyes on it, but to Spider, it was a command center..