May 28, 2014 Original Short Stories

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 28^th, 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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