“Marty, you missed a spot.” I gesture to the far corner of the kitchen, near the base of the marble island where the robot misses sometimes. It is a tiny speck of dust, barely visible to the human eye, but I make sure he always has something to do. I sit back and try to […]
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The Gospel of the Lord
Sylvie Hutchison would never doubt her father. After all, who else could speak to God? It seemed silly to an outsider. A man who could speak to God through a chatbot. However, he had found a way. Through a simple bot, he connected his people with the Lord, telling them how to live. It had […]
The Cost of Compassion
I still remember the day we flipped the switch. We stood eager in a glass-walled lab in Santa Clara, surrounded with monitors running code and loading humming as if it were alive. In that exact moment, I realized this is what years of hard work led to. As I and my colleagues sit face to […]
Marsha’s Mechanical Mishap
It was just like any other Thursday afternoon. Marsha arrived home at four o’clock after working in the pharmacy. It was seventy degrees and sunny outside, so she walked home, picking up a fresh bouquet of tulips from the street market on the way. She grabbed her mail from her PO box on the first […]
Blueberry’s Bakery Adventure
One day, a baker named Ms. Butterbean was busy in the back of her bakery making a variety of pies. What she wasn’t aware of was that as she was making these pies, she accidentally added just a little extra sugar and cooked her blueberry pie just a little too long. This simple, unnoticeable mistake […]
Party Undying
“High Fantasy R, Tol Narwa Vire” by Mandy Ritt is licensed under CC BY-ND 2.0. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/2.0/?ref=openverse. The party of adventurers were traveling back to town rather uneventfully after slaughtering the bandit camp they were tasked with by the bounty coordinator, Drane. It was a three day journey back to the small […]