Robots

by Blossom Ruoqen

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You walk down the cold wintry streets of New New York, looking for a suicide booth.
The denomination mortgaging tax was just raised again, and your apart-a-house’s lease was over in negative ten minutes.
Life is a fiery furnace of derelict loans..with smog on top. Wondrous.

Not paying attention to where you’re going, you run head first into something very solid; with blackness etching in around the corners of your vision, the last thing you see is icy blue eyes set in a marble smooth face with a mocking smile.
O.o
You awake in a chilly and dimly-lit room. “Did you enjoy your slumber?” you hear a smooth voice, smooth like marble, say.
Great, you thought, I’m still not dead. You feel a light pressure on your upper leg and look down to see a super computer known as a SEMbot, one of the newer models, resting a micro-perfected hand on one of the straps holding you down. Wait, Straps?!

“Simulated Entertainment Machine bot, unbind me!” you command.
The SEMbot’s gaze drifts up to your face, “Not likely.” he smirks.

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Average Reader Rating: 5.0 stars out of 5

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    invisibility_disability's Buddy Icon invisibility_disability

    Posted 4 months ago

    5.0 out of 5 stars

    woww, this is good. :)

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    Blossom Ruoqen's Buddy Icon Blossom Ruoqen

    Posted 4 months ago

    gracias! I.D. tee hee, i’mma call you ID from hereon out!! declared from imaginary mountain top

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    Brebelles' Buddy Icon Brebelles

    Posted 4 months ago

    5.0 out of 5 stars

    This is good. You should totally keep going….

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    THX 0477's Buddy Icon THX 0477

    Posted 4 months ago

    Chilling and dark vision of the future. Now we get to see a suicidal guy fight for his life? The paradox is too amusing. Very well written and welcome back to the ficleting world.
    LoA

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    Ridcully Calvert's Buddy Icon Ridcully Calvert

    Posted 4 months ago

    I enjoyed this story – the ways that it could go forward and back are legion. Please write some more of it

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