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Posthuman Cleanup

“Hello?, Is this the used body pickup service?”

“I’d like to schedule a pickup.”

“uh-huh, My name is Kat, and I live at 555 North Terrace.”

“Yea, that’s over on the west side.”

“It’s an organic body.”

“Yes it’s my own.”

“It’s been discarded for about three days.”

“Oh really? I didn’t know I should have called that soon.”

“Well, it is still operating.”

“I just couldn’t bring myself to terminate it.”

“Yea, I’ve kept it fed like normal and everything.”

“Well, I have it restrained so it can’t damage itself.”

“Tomorrow at 4:00? I don’t know if I’ll quite be home by then, is 4:15 ok?”

“Great, see you then.”

Kat watched with horror as the robot hung up the phone.

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