robots, robots, robots!

August 15, 2008

The robots kept huddling together, then falling asleep. We separated them but that didn’t help. They nodded off as soon as we turned our backs. One of them told us they had developed telepathy but it worked only when they were sleeping.

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4 Responses to “robots, robots, robots!”

  1. ...deb on August 16th, 2008 8:29 pm

    Dood. Did/have you read Matthea Harvey’s Modern Life? (Robot action. Lovely robots.)

  2. Dana on August 16th, 2008 8:36 pm

    Deb, no! I should!

  3. Rocas on August 17th, 2008 6:08 am

    Wow, That was really poignant, especially the graveyard sequence.

  4. Dana on August 17th, 2008 12:00 pm

    Rocas, it’s such a great piece.

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This is my blog wherein I, Dana Guthrie Martin, write things and stuff. Most of the time, writing and I hobble along in a sort of three-legged race where there is no finish line. (more...)

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