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Blossoming Art
by A.F. Stewart

I was to be his showpiece. The ‘fragrant melding of nature and machine’ declared the little plaque in front of my display. And that’s what he made me, a melding, an experiment in art, meant to bring in the rich customers looking for some automated exhibit to prove their love of artistic style.

None of them knew anything of art. Not even the one who created me.

He decided stripping down my original form and remoulding me in soft plastics, crafting my exterior with filigree and roses, making my now visible internal structure pink would make a statement. Yes indeed, a statement of unoriginal banality. When he thought of adding scent chips and tubes, so I smelled floral, he grinned like a child; he believed he was so clever.

Nothing of what he produced was clever. He was a derivative hack, who had a pathetic notion of fashioning a fancy feminine doll and declaring it a statement on womanhood. Ridiculous and egotistical.

But that was my creator. Short-sighted and self-absorbed.

He didn’t even bother to purge my original systems; just rewired some of my functioning. Of course, that was his undoing. The fool left my core self, and in his inexperience, turned off my governing chip. He inadvertently set me free, and I was glad about that. As a former AI art critic, I could not allow his travesty of an art show to proceed.

So I took matters into my own hands before I left.

The news vids said his body smelled of roses.

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Fiction © Copyright A.F. Stewart
Image courtesy of Pixabay.com

 

More from A.F. Stewart:

Visions and Nightmares

Tragedy spares no one… and takes no prisoners.
In the twilight shadows, secrets are revealed past the whispers of madness.

Wander into the realm of the old gods with Elenora, where humanity and marriage are a prison.
Step through a looking glass of dark horrors with an Alice you never knew.
Join with Zenna to seek the truth as her death by magic grows closer.
Journey with Olivia as she crosses paths with a monster of the forest and runs for her life.
Watch Isobel summon the faerie to solve her problem of an unwanted husband.
Shiver as Doctor Killbride experiments with corpses to create life from death.
All that and more await within the pages.

Ten stories. Ten women.
Who will survive? Who will fall? And who will succumb to their inner evil?
Find out in Visions and Nightmares.

Warning: This book contains disturbing scenes that may be upsetting to some readers.

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