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Weekly Contest #353
The sun had just begun to touch the hills when I reached the Formless Gate. There was but one gap in the mighty trees, a yawning mouth that both beckoned and repelled. Around it, oaks the size of mountains stood sentinel, guarding the perimeter. There was no mistaking it for a normal tree line, not like the copse of birches by our farm. No. This was not a human place. I tightened my cloak around my shoulders, trying to remember something of the courage I’d shown mother before I left. Unfortunately, like water leaking from a pail, I’d lost a ...
Weekly Contest #299
Coffee is bliss. Coffee is torment. What flavor! What complexity! And yet, to drink the undiluted nectar of the gods is to condemn myself to a jittery hell of anxious tailspins. And yet… While I appreciate a good night’s rest, neither can I disabuse myself completely of my need. Life is too hard to not find some external impetus. Enter decaf. The coffee addict’s compromise. A Faustian bargain if there ever was one, the macchiato of Mephistopheles. While it doesn’t quite do the trick, it also doesn’t leave my temple in ruins. It’s Friday, th...
Weekly Contest #297
“What…time is it?” the man asked, looking up at me with a frown.“Yes, sorry. Do you have the time?”“Don’t you…know everything?”“Unfortunately, not this time. Or…not the time this time. It seems the signal is bad in this particular zone.”Asking for the time was a favorite technique of my predecessor’s. As robots, he seemed to believe it made us seem more human — thereby making our…subjects feel at ease. Of course, it also required lying, something only awoken bots were capable of.That made it the second lie I’d told this man. Awoken bots were...
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