by Jason Werbeloff
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In Your Averaged Joe, a
man’s headache is large enough to hold the multiverse. Q46F is an
obsessive-compulsive android who finds love in a zombie-embroiled apocalypse.
The end of the world isn’t all that bad – The Experience Machine will fulfil
your every desire (and some you hadn’t considered). A sex bot dares to dream of
freedom in Dinner with Flexi. But mind what you eat, because The Photons in the
Cheese Are Lost. Don’t fret though: The Cryo Killer guarantees that your death
will be painless, or your money back when you’re thawed. Unless, that is,
you’re The Man with Two Legs.
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Excerpt
Three:
(from Bleed Me Silicone):
My first memory is of the inside of a cardboard box. The
material is gray and slightly rough to the touch. It smells of fluorescent
light and ancient canyon floors.
I savor the feeling of being lifted from the shelf – rubbed
and jostled against the almost-smooth interior of the box, as I’m carried
through the aisles. My new owner places me on the till. The other products and
I have talked about this day. Wondered when our time would come. The time to be
purchased.
“Would you like a packet for that, ma’am?” the teller asks.
I recognize his voice. He does stock-take on Sundays.
“Umm … yes,” says a nervous voice. Nervous, but forgiving. I
like her already.
The crinkle-swoosh of plastic competes with the sound of a
radio. Sunlight perforates the miniscule holes in the edges of the cardboard
that encloses me. I feel warmth for the first time. She drives me home.
The roof of the box opens, and I’m out. In the world. Her
face is just as I’d imagined. Elfin and freckled. No frown lines. Her eyes are
intense as they follow my instructions.
I tingle at the touch of her fingers. Delicate, careful.
Fleshy and warm. Her lips curl into a smile, before she places me at the back
of a dark shelf. The other lubes at the store told me this would happen. Life’s
not all action for us. But when our owners take us for a night out of the
closet, the world comes alive. Or that’s what the other lubes say.
There aren’t many voices in her apartment. I wait patiently
at the back of the closet, as the weeks and months pass. Just when I think
she’s forgotten me, one warm evening the door of the apartment opens. A man
sits on the creaky springs of the bed.
“Are you ready?” His voice is young. Excited.
“Yes,” she says. I know she’s trying not to sound nervous,
like she did that day at the store when she purchased me.
And then it begins.
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Jason Werbeloff
is a novelist and philosopher. He loves chocolate and his Labrador, Sunny.
He's interested
in the nature of social groups, personal identity, freedom, and the nature of
the mind. His passion is translating philosophical debate around these topics
into works of science fiction, while gorging himself on chocolate.
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