Monday, June 14, 2010

flash fiction--artificialSciFi "The Outpost"

Quanta Deemed


The time comes and goes, still no call.  Suzie's concern grows, but never all the way to terror.  She remembers the first scientist who cared for her, her vulnerability.  "The latest advances in a.i.," she thought.  She had never known the feeling of unconsciousness.  
A sudden sound broke the silence.  
Suzie gets up.  She wouldn't  know futility, either.  She had heard of courage, but wasn't aware of what it really was.  Whatever was needed, she would do.  She was aware of that.  She thought again of the only one who sensed sentiment in her logic; she knew it wasn't what she thought.  The sentiment program had been too long in the coming, even by quanta mechanica standards. It had been deemed useless.

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