Stories tagged “mechanic”
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Fixing Marilyn
Dr. Green was standing on the front porch as I stepped out of the community car. It shut its door behind me and whizzed away to some unknown street. “Mr. Edison?” he said. I nodded, faintly surprised. He looked maybe four years younger than...
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Rebirth
Dr. Green stepped out of the room as I started to work. No stomach for tech I guess. Humans are like that, very uncomfortable with robots that look like them. For a long time there seemed to be an unspoken agreement in the manufacturing world that a ro...
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Kindness of Strangers
The reboot finished, she rolled her head around, as a human would do to stretch the neck muscles. She seemed satisfied with the movement, looked up at me and said, “Thanks. I guess I should go in for a tune up more often, huh?” I frowned. &...
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Mechanical Failure
“Yep,” the Mechanic said, alone in the desert, “well there’s our problem, right there. Fuel leak. She bled out.” The carcass of the cargo ship had been baking in the wasteland sun for nearly three years. Its once vibrant p...