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eBook Category: Science Fiction
eBook Description: A seventy-year old researcher forces a meeting with his thirty-something boss who can't be bothered to read the lab reports from such an outdated employee. But the old man has invented a device to control biochemical processes and uses it to forcibly prevent his unwanted retirement.

eBook Publisher: Fictionwise.com, Published: The Age of Wonders, 2000
Fictionwise Release Date: April 2006

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Words: 1736
Reading time: 4-6 min.
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"I can't help you," Maxwell said, and gestured me toward the door. The interview I'd waited ten weeks for was over in ten seconds. It had fallen apart as soon as he'd seen me in person, as soon as he had a face to pair with the unfamiliar name on his appointment schedule. There was no way he was going to listen to an old man. He'd been confused at first. I didn't seem quite as old compared to his memory of me. I moved faster, stood taller, but seventy years still showed on my face. That was enough.

"Stay right where you are," Alejandro hissed in my left ear, cycling up my adrenal glands with a digital flick of a dozen subroutines. I paused. Strength surged through me and the aches and pains of old age melted away. The room became brighter, suffused with light as my pupils dilated, courtesy of the artificial arousal coursing through my blood. Flick, flick, and flick, Alejandro played with my dopamine receptors, my re-uptake of acetylcholine, and half a dozen enzymes responsible for breaking down the neurotransmitters involved in the emotional responses routed through my frontal lobe.