Short Stories and Other Randomness

short story starter #2

I took a red pill. Well, I thought about taking a blue one but I figured that talking was more useful than playing a guitar or something. You see, a few years ago, ground breaking technology was discovered that made it possible to program a brain to learn things without the person actually taking the time to master it, they called it The MindTap, we called it brain hacking. That technology was kept under lock and key for almost a decade before BioTech realized they stood to make a fortune if more people could take it because then they would need to keep coming back to keep up their abilities. So what did they do?

They offered everyone a choice, the choice differed from city to city but my choice was blue or red, instruments or languages. I chose the red. I can't describe what it felt like for it to work but I'll do my best. Imagine waking up like normal but then instead of thinking like you normally do, you suddenly have thoughts in languages you didn't know existed. It took me a while to figure out how to control it, but I was finally able to converse in a single language even if I had no prior knowledge.