like a pendulum awaiting the arrival of the cops.

Awesome simile 😂 In fact you set a Mary Shelley like scene so well.

Who would have thought a single word would give rise to such an imagination. I like the way you are talking to the cops, though it wasn't clear til toward the end.

Countermemory weapons would be the end of us all! They do enough with media and politics.

Great story, I enjoyed it a lot.