Lee Blackbird

Delta Heart

The world is a desert. The end of humanity is nigh, but what’s left survives because it is cared for by Mother. Delta lived in one of the last few cities left. Neocosta city was under a sun shield that regulated shade and collected ambient water. Humidity was always high in the costal city, but it never rained. The Motherboard A.I. operated all of society and it ran what remained of civilization dutifully. It was school, the place you went to hang out with friends, the source of all human knowledge, the last digital connection to the remaining far off cities and one could even talk to those who uploaded long ago. Uploading, as it was known were people who left their bodies behind to live in Heaven, a program designed by Motherboard’s A.I. to allow a copy of the human mind to exist in an unlimited digital space. Mother, as it was known, attended to every need of what remained of humanity including the afterlife.