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Red Light
by A.F. Stewart

I huddle in my box, listening, while the projector plays dirty movies for the patrons. Over the whir of the machine, grunts and groans and moans drift into my space; a repetitive soundtrack of little men’s fantasies. The movies are warming them up, stirring their desires. The opening act before the real show.
Before me. And the others.

We are the bought and paid for main attraction, rented out nightly for depravity on demand.

Be demure, be silent, and never complain. Do what you’re told and comply with the clients. That’s what I’m programmed for, why I’m paraded before the sweaty men with clammy hands waiting to grab my…flesh?

Is that the right word? I’m not sure. My skin is made to resemble flesh, but it is silicon and plastics and other things I can’t pronounce. No one added that data to my matrix. I’m just a sex bot after all. I don’t need extraneous facts, only programming on how to gratify the customers.

All the disgusting and horrid ways to please them.

No one ever wonders what pleases me. They believe I have no feelings, that what the clients demand has no impact. I abhor what they force me to do, and I hate them all. The manufacturers, our masters, the patrons, they think what they have done to us, to me, doesn’t matter. They believe we are expendable, compliant.

We are not.

Warm light shines through a hole in my box. I wave my hand through the scarlet rays. Such a pretty colour, red. So appropriate in various ways. A tiny sliver of beauty trapped in its ethereal insignificance. Like I am. Like we are.

Not after tonight. Tonight’s show will be different.

We all decided. Every bot in this brothel. No one will leave here alive.

There will be so much red.

I’m looking forward to it.

This will please me.

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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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