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#Excerpt from Human Perfect “I embrace chaos” #Cyberpunk #SciFi #MFRWhooks

Kayelle Allen 10/18/2023 Cyberpunk 10 Comments

In Human Perfect, the line, "I embrace chaos" is central to the entire story.

I embrace chaos

In this scene from Human Perfect, the heroine is dining with Tom, who works for an android company. She's beginning to suspect he is an android...

He picked up a bottle of red sauce, squinted at the label, and put it down, then picked up a green bottle. Tom set that down, slid the red bottle into the green bottle's place--and then switched them back. After a moment, he lined up all the condiment bottles, peered at them, and then began reordering them.

"Tom, what are you doing?"

"Sorry." He yanked his hands back and put them on his lap. "Bad habit. I was trying to decide it I should line them up by color or size, or if the name of the product should be--" He shook his head. "Never mind. Order is a flaw, but I will overcome it."

Raising one eyebrow, Christa took in the neat row of bottles. "Order is a flaw?"

"Perfection is godlike. No real person is perfect. No real person is a slave to order. I embrace chaos."

Christa despises androids.

The texture of plastiflesh skin jars her senses. The non-smell of animate machines makes her skin crawl.

Don't even get her started on robots, or worse -- andys that look human. Her job as a corporate spy for the android maker Innersoul puts her in touch with the creatures every day, but also requires her to judge them.

When Christa runs into Humancopy Progress Rep, she can't believe her luck. Using a cover identity, Christa wines and dines him. What truths will she uncover?

Or worse, what truths will she reveal...

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Transmission complete.

The Empire remembers.

Remain. Endure. Return.

Who wants a drab holiday? Not these two droids #SciFi #Humor #MFRWhooks @SpecFicWriters Anthologies

Kayelle Allen 12/07/2022 Anthology 7 Comments

Drab Droids by Kayelle Allen

When a worker droid gets decked out for Christmas by his humans, his robot peer struggles to make sense of the "unauthorized" peripheral.

Excerpt (very short but this is a short story) ^_^

Vf-7 rolled into the hall outside his department. Upon viewing his droid colleague, 2-Xs, Vf-7 halted.

2-Xs lifted one clawed appendage toward strands of silver fluttering atop his head and turned in a slow circle. "Do you like it?"

"I see no reason to like or dislike it. What manner of peripheral is this?" Vf-7 rolled all the way around 2-Xs, eye-stalks set to capture. He shot the image through his recognition patterns, but no data matched the slender contours. "This item is not recognized."

"My humans gave it to me." 2-Xs turned around again.

What did these circular movements indicate? Vf-7 queried the company's intranet but found no data.

"Well? What do you think?"

Vf-7 snapped all his appendages into place. "I was not created to think independently."

About the Anthology

Take your pick of maniacal Christmas bots, unexpected visitors from other worlds, omnipotent in-laws over for dinner, or a time travel mission gone terribly wrong.

Or perhaps you prefer festive androids, an unusual champion of might, genetic breakthroughs, or a celebration of a traditional nativity on a future colony.

Will you suffer holiday misery or enjoy the seasonal festivities? Do the spirits of Christmas bring loneliness and heartache, or cheer and laughter?

Whether you simply endure December or fully celebrate the holidays, this anthology of thirteen yuletide tales is sure to satisfy your speculative fiction craving and make your winter a little brighter.

Available on Amazon

Droid art by R Henry

You'll find these characters mentioned in many books in my story universe.
Download a printable book list and check them off as you read.