Mar 3, 2016 Friday Fictioneers

Genre: Science Fiction/Horror
Word Count:  100 words of text, exactly

Electric Sleep*
©March 3rd, 2016
By Vijaya Sundaram

So many batteries, so little time!

I taste success, despite setbacks, and despite my school-mates laughing at me.  He can’t move himself without huffing and puffing!  Check out those batteries he’s collecting.  What’s he going to make with those?  A robot?

They don’t know what I’m capable of.

Time to get to work.

News Flash:  Parks Middle School was thrown into terror, when Andy Sheppard, an obese student entered school, trailing wires attached to him.  He was dead, but hovered.  School is closed for the week.  Interestingly, the morgue reports fluctuating power.  The strapped-down body still twitches, as if dreaming.

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*I’ve always loved science-fiction, and Philip K. Dick’s story, “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” is one of my all-time favorite titles (along with Harlan Ellison’s “I have No Mouth, and I Must Scream”).  My story has nothing to do with that story, except that I couldn’t resist calling my protagonist Andy (for Android, in case you were wondering  🙂 ), and give him a last name relating to sheep.

Thanks, as always, to Rochelle Wisoff-Fields, for being, as I’ve dubbed her, the Fairy Blog-Mother of Friday Fictioneers, graciously presiding over our creative output, and being generous with her comments to all.  Thanks, also, to Sean Fallon, for that seemingly innocent photo-prompt!

 

Tags: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, Original 100-word short story based on a photo-prompt, Rochelle Wisoff-Fields, Science Fiction Flash Fiction