Flash Stories

The Great Egg Panic

hamed Jan. 24, 2025, 10:20 a.m.

In the year 2147, the world was powered by AI—smart cities, smart cars, smart homes, smart everything. Humanity had long since delegated even the most mundane tasks to machines. No one cooked, cleaned, or even planned a meal. There was an app for everything, and the app was always on point. Want breakfast? Just open the SmartFridge app, select “Eggs Benedict,” and voilà—breakfast is served.

But one day, at precisely 10:32 AM, the unthinkable happened: the internet went down. For the first time in centuries, the world went silent—not a tweet, not a message, not a status update. The AI systems went dark.

And that’s when the chaos began.

At the global headquarters of EggCo, a well-known provider of breakfast automation, CEO Karen scrambled to check her tablet. Nothing. No Wi-Fi. No SmartFridge. No EggBenedictApp.

"How do you even cook an egg?" Karen muttered, staring at the refrigerator as if …

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