Dirty Robot Girl (Part 1)

[Brad Rose]

‘Eve’ is thinking again… well, not exactly thinking, but feeling, again… which she immediately realizes is a serious problem.  Those ambiguous sensations—the same ones that happened last time-- are starting to effervesce, to bubble, inside of her, in a kind of craving she doesn’t fully comprehend.  They’re so deep within her white Mylar-covered chassis, she can’t be certain where they’re located, or exactly what they mean.

 

Must be love, must be love, must be love.

 

Designed to perform dirty and dangerous tasks, to relieve her co-workers of the ugly and the treacherous---all she wants now, is a compassionate, human touch. 

 

The last time Eve fell in love with a real woman, the men on the shop floor sneered at her, called her a ‘friggin Lesbian.’

 

As if a robot’s love was some kind of crime against mankind.

 

[Bill Floyd]

Santorum said it would come to this.

[Jamie Hogan]

Wow, this is immediately engaging. Sentence four...the way the phrase is italicized and repeated, sounded like hope to me and then I was off on what Eve's life must be like, how it must be for a robot to know that feelings are a "serious problem" and to want them anyway, and...well, that's what good writing is supposed to do. Spin our minds.

[bolton carley]

i commend you for always thinking outside the box.  there's always so much passion in your thoughts.  the first line got me.  and there's a lot more than the on-the-surface stuff here.

[Gita]

Angela said what I was going to say. Feeling, if perceived as a problem, can be a real soul killer. Do bots have circuitry-souls?

[Robert Crisman]

Nice irony.

[Teresa]

This is so out there, I adore it.  This is how emotions can feel, bubbly, deep within, confusing.  I think they're thoughts that melt.  High five.

[Angela]

This is something to think about.  Feeling as a serious problem, and the desire for compassion as something to be derided.  Speaks to my inner Robot Girl.