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Submitted to Contest #301
The chef on the infomercial prepped for dinner by chopping up vegetables, peeling potatoes, and marinating the meat. He worked like a well-oiled machine. In fact, he was a machine, an AR3M robot. They were the “quirky” ones. The company had gone out of business because the robots were labeled, “Unpredictable,” by the media. With thousands of them in storage, an entrepreneur bought them up and refurbished them, renaming the robots Generation 3 Personal Helpers. Kevin watched the commercial with real interest, then he looked over at his tast...
Submitted to Contest #213
Sky City Amanda stepped onto the shuttlecraft slowly, making sure her tired old legs could step across the gap between the platform and the ship. She used her cane to steady herself. Having traversed that, she went and sat down near the back. An old man, with a walker next to his seat, gazed up from his paper. “Oh, it’s you.” He went back to reading, ignoring her glare. “Tony got tired of having you around then?” She said it just to ruffle his feathers. He set down the paper in his lap. “What about your two lovelies? Are they going to mis...
Submitted to Contest #199
Olivia walked through the forest as a shortcut to her night class. She knew better than to come this way, but she couldn’t be late again after the teacher’s last warning. As she walked down the path, she stopped suddenly. A man sat on a fallen tree, head in his hands. “Ahh, you scared me.” “Sorry.” Wiping his eyes, he gazed up at her. She let loose a blood-curdling scream at the sight of his oversized eyes and grey complexion. “Wait,” he said as he grabbed a face out of his bag and slipped it over his head. “Is that better?” He now appeared ...
Submitted to Contest #137
A beaker of blue liquid bubbled as it sat on the counter; a flask of red liquid spewed out smoke every few minutes. Tubes and vials lined one whole wall of Tyan’s laboratory. All those who visited were impressed. It was all for show. He had rigged up an air tube to make the blue liquid bubble and a smoke generator created the effect for the red liquid. He needed the donations. He wanted people to believe he was on the verge of a breakthrough. He wasn’t. The donations kept rolling in, however. He hadn’t asked for them. His ex-lab assistant ha...
Submitted to Contest #115
John tinkered with the alarm clock. He didn’t know why he kept it around. It needed to be fixed once a month, it seemed. The thing that came to mind is it had been his father’s before John was born. He only had a few things of his father’s left. The last step, spinning the spring, took the longest. He half-listened to the television program as he worked. Suddenly his attention was drawn away from the clock. The spring flew out of his hands. “This is a special report,” the anchor came on. “We have just heard…” The television buzzed with stati...
Submitted to Contest #112
Dust swirled around the two gaunt figures as they stepped up to the cistern. They struggled to pull the lid off of the shaft. One man climbed down the ladder. He soon came back up, shaking his head. “It’s down another two feet. At this rate, we’ll be out of water before the winter.” “I wonder how Chancellor Drake will fix this one.” “In the worst way possible, Greff. We both know that. Everything he fixes needs fixing again.” “Well, we’ll tell him the bad news. Come, John, let’s go back to the village.” Heading slowly down the dry hills, the...
Submitted to Contest #111
“There you are. Hey, Vinney, it worked.” “Why did you waste the energy bringing her here?” “I wanted her to see what she’s done.” Dorothy focused on the grey metal walls around her. “Where am I? How did I get here?” A man in a white coverall smiled. “I’m John. I brought you here.” “Brought me where?” She tried to stand up but the low ceiling prevented her. She sat back down. “This is the last ship out. Take a look.” He pointed to a round window. “Earth?” “Yep, it’s Earth. Of course, no one lives there anymore because of you. I brought you he...
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