PHOTO PROMPT
Copyright –Jennifer Pendergast
I must confess I was inspired to write another one. This prompt by Jennifer Pendergast is to blame. (Thanks, Jennifer! And thanks, Rochelle Wisoff-Fields, for hosting your wonderful 100-word, Fiction-Writing challenge for the Friday Fictioneers community every Wednesday! I hope I haven’t overstepped my bounds in attempting another story. If I have, I’m so sorry! If not, please let me know if you liked this one!
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Cogito, Err-go Sum, OR: De-Programming Perfection
©May 28th, 2014
By Vijaya Sundaram
I remember that arch.
I’d seen it from a distance, knew the sacrifice it entailed.
I came from a world where only bleakness and machines existed. I had been one of them, perfect. I never made mistakes. I was programmed not to.
Someone had worked on me and given me form, flesh, a soul, a past and a passport.
“Now you may go. You can learn about our world,” she said.
I tried on gratitude. My voice was hoarse. “Thank you,” I said.
And I entered that other world through that arch.
I was human.
I erred.
Then, I cried.
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