Challenge
Write a drabble (a story of exactly 100 words).
In Prose only, 100 words exactly, tell me a story. Fiction or fact, fantastical or realistic, just make it lean, mean, and punchy. No theme assigned this time, let's see what you can do without guidance. I'll choose the winner in June.
Hard Drive Bomb
This was the age before computers, functional ones at least. Everything was put to tape, all one hundred twenty two tracks worth. A hard drive containing the songs malfunctioned last November. Malfunctioned is a gentle term in this case. The cheap plastic innards of a hard drive can malfunction, but they can't get confused the same way a computer does. It's an isolated object from the interface, in need of physical damage to stop functioning. This damage came in a grey molasses smoke wafting out from its end when plugged into the main monitor, an unintentional electrical burn incense stick.