Quashing the Bug

by Mark T

Bill frantically scanned the code of his experimental biological augmentation routine, then suddenly grinned in twisted triumph.

"Yes!" he hissed as he moved his cursor to the offending line and hit the equals-key. One measly missing equals sign in a for() loop - but he had found it! The rumbling outside was growing louder and the door to the office was vibrating as he recompiled, just to check that the code was clean.

The wall near the door crumpled inward as the giant breast pushed its way in, its unconscious owner unaware of the havoc she was wreaking. As his desk was slowly absorbed, the nano-machines in the breast using its raw material to grow their mammarian home even larger, Bill sighed with resignation.

Figures, he thought as the breast's growth trapped him in a corner and inexorably inched towards his impending absorption. All the goddamn test treaties and nuclear weapons bans, and the world was going to be destroyed, literally eaten alive, by a stupid infinite loop.