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Submitted to Contest #295
“Family”Fully clothed, life size mannequins aren’t what you’d expect to see in someone’s home. A department store, sure, but not in a home, not like this. Maria was holding her cellphone when she’d greeted me at the front door. She told me to please wait for a moment while she finished her call. When she walked away I waited a few seconds then stepped into the living room. I didn’t think I’d have to compete with plastic people for a place to sit. All I could do was stand there in the middle of the weirdness and wait for Maria to return. Fort...
Submitted to Contest #288
What’s Next?For the first few weeks of May the local TV weather report hadn’t drawn much attention. That time of year hot, dry weather was the norm in Phoenix so the reports fell on deaf ears. The usual time for the temperature to hit 100 degrees was mid-May but that year it happened in early April, Even after four consecutive years of breaking heat records people still didn’t seem to be concerned. Summer was coming and the monsoon storms would bring rain. There was nothing to worry about.About two months into summer I noticed a subtle chang...
Submitted to Contest #280
“Did You Hear?”Every trip down the corridor to get a cup of coffee was a reminder of how things had changed. The rows of empty cubicles, offices with the lights off and the silence, broken only occasionally by a muffled phone conversation from somewhere behind a workstation panel. The office workforce, or what was left of it, was quietly going about the business of putting out a daily newspaper. The Gazette was like every other newspaper in the country; trying to hold on to its history and stay viable as print media continued its steady decl...
Submitted to Contest #272
“A Walk in the Hereafter” It’s taking a lot longer than I thought it would. Of course, there’s no guidebook for dead people, at least as far as I know. After three months I’m still trying to get used to being dead. Even using that word is hard to adapt to. When death comes people usually use terms like “He passed away” or “She’s in a better place”. It makes them feel better but the person is still dead and words can’t change that. I guess it’s just a way that people try to adjust to the whole situation. And one of the biggest things I’m tryi...
Submitted to Contest #271
“The Blue Book”It had been six months since Andy had been built. He was uncomfortable when the lab people used that term but it was an accurate way to describe his situation. After four years of secret research and experiments, Life-Tech, a small, medical research lab had created a human-like android. Andy’s formal name was Andrew and it seemed strange to him that the brilliant people who’d built him couldn’t come up with a more creative name than Andrew the Android. But he had more important things to deal with. He was setting out on a...
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