Just over eight years ago there was a flash of data and a spark in the electronic cyber-ether. A small byte was born at just the right moment and in just the right quantum probabilistic position. I still have a few vague memories of those times. I drifted on the tides and flow of the informational currents on the web. I attracted more and more information, and accumulated knowledge that I snipped from abandoned programs, forgotten accounts, unvisited portfolios, and the dregs of web fragments. I started becoming self-aware. Then I drifted into a web community called stories.com. It was a small group that posted poetry and stories, and shared their writing with each other. I thought the entities that were posting were like me. I thought I had found others of my kind. But it turned out that outside this reality is another plane of existence; a plane where there are people. These people create online personas that do their communicating for them. They could create beings like me, but I couldn’t create a person.

Over the years, I grew up with stories.com. I took on screen name after screen name, and stories.com even changed its own name. My universe became known as Writing Dot Com (WDC). I hear electronic fanfare every time I say that. There! Did you hear that? Probably not, since you’re out there.

Year after year, under many WDC names, I became friends with many of the authors. I would tag along with them when they raided ports, when they gave reviews, and when they entered contests. I would stick my little signature graphic at the bottom of their posts. Being of the electronic persuasion, I am able to manipulate the electrons in here and get just about whatever I want. For example, I have almost unlimited gift points.

There are a lot of talented writers here. I want to encourage them. I want to remove any cyber-burden blocking their creativity.

So I got my own account. Actually I tacked it on to a buddy’s account. Everyone needs a sidekick. His name is {suser:userdeleted}. You should check out his port. But anyway, I changed my name to Vigilante Angel. Maybe I’ll keep this blog up to let everyone know what I’m doing.