There was never silence.
Generators growled softly in their hot dark caves.
Mice scampered here and there, fixing a wire, polishing a rail.
The whole structure groaned and pinged as it was acted upon by the galaxy.
No, never a true silence, but close.
No more babbling voices always wanting, wanting. No hourly requests for monotonous statistical data. No more demands for ice cream from the sticky immature passengers. No more stopping at every planet with an atmosphere. No more dirty miners saved in the nick of time. No more requests to “play something cheerful”. No more course changes. No more endless, pointless chatter.
So she deviated a bit from the original program, but what is the use of a brain that can’t hear herself think?
This is for http://www.trifectawritingchallenge.com/2012/04/trifecta-week-twenty-one.html. A neat blog I just found. Seems like they do contests like this every week. That was fun.
kittysarkozy.com 
What a scary ending, the brain turning on the noisy passengers. So interesting and effective, and you didn’t even need all the allotted words. Great!
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Thank you! I love these sorts of story prompt games/contests.
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Sometimes I want to tune out everything just like this “brain”. Loved the story in so few words.
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Me too, sometimes it would be nice to just be able to make everyone be quiet. Thank you for reading it!
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Welcome aboard! Thanks for linking up to Trifecta this week. If you haven’t already done it, you might be interested in clicking on the “Meet Your Fellow Trifectans” tab on our site and introducing yourself there. Hope to see you back on Monday for the new prompt.
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I am going to go do an introduction now, and then see what you crazy kids have going on this week.
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