Day #12, ‘Harmless’ – by Elizabeth Averay
Across all social media platforms an ad appears:
ATTENTION ALL – this is a must-have product. Developed by Director Allgood. What is it, you ask?
The INVISIE MICROCHIP.
What’s it for? I’ll tell you. Are you sick of fad diets that don’t work? Sick of working out and feeling nothing but exhausted? Have unsightly scars from injury or pimples? Don’t like how you look and don’t want painful plastic surgery to fix it?
Well, look no further.
The INVISIE MICROCHIP can fix it all.
Don’t just take my word for it; here are a couple of our clients to tell you more!
A gorgeous young woman in her mid-twenties appears on the screen: I had the INVISIE MICROCHIP in my arm. I tried all the diets and exercises you can name, and never lost any weight. I’d been a size twenty for so long. Until INVISIE and Dr Allgood came along, and now look at me.
A thirty-something man with light tan and big muscles next appears on screen: Hi. Here is a photo of me five months ago. A gangly, bespectacled man with pale skin and crooked teeth floats over the monitor. Look at me now. All my changes are from the INVISIE MICROCHIP. You don’t even know it’s working! It’s fabulous, and no pain. I love INVISIE. It’s made all the difference.
The presenter reappears. Dr Allgood has been working on INVISIE for decades. Only now have the advancements in technology made it possible for his miraculous innovation to come to fruition.
Dr Allgood has millions of INVISIE MICROCHIPS ready for you! All you need to do is send an email…
INVISIE takes a total of three months – yes, just three months! – to complete your transformation. You won’t be disappointed.
The ad ends, and the internet is flooded with emails to Dr Allgood – and thousands of sites speculating whether it’s all just a scam: ‘No one can promise all that from a microchip!’
That night on the news a government official announces they welcome Dr Allgood’s invention and have seen the proof for themselves. They believe in it so much that they are willing to pay for fifty thousand people on disability pensions to have the INVISIE chip implanted. They will require a letter of recommendation from their doctors, with the possibility of further payment for treatment later.
Everyone is in shock, and phones are going crazy, people desperate to get in to see their GPs to get that important letter.
Fights break out in medical waiting rooms. People push to get in without appointments. Police are called in for crowd control, only allowing those with confirmed appointments into the waiting rooms.
I am one of those that needs this letter, this chip, but I am hesitant.
There has to be a catch.
Six months on, over half a billion people have the INVISIE MICROCHIP. Ninety percent paid for it themselves, at a staggering cost of ten thousand dollars each – not cheap. People all around the world are now slim, great musculature, tanned; there are so many beach-blondes around now. Some people have completely changed their looks. They are taller, leaner, faces more symmetrically pleasing.
I feel uncomfortable now, more than ever. Yes, I would love to be thin and not have mental problems, but I still think there’s a catch.
Three years on, there is only seven percent of the world’s population that doesn’t have the INVISIE CHIP. I am one of them. And I am so very grateful.
I have noticed all the women are looking much the same – as are the men. Eating the same food. Wearing the same clothes. Driving the same cars. Using the same mannerisms.
Doctor Allgood has made his very own clone army. He has taken away all that made us individual and interesting. No new music, or films being made – no variety in clothing. Nothing unique left in the world.
The INVISIE MICROCHIP has a catch. A big one. You can’t ever be yourself again.
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