She Remembered

Copyright 2021 by Limnophile

Thanks to the editors and authors who helped me improve my writing from ‘Painfully Godawful’ to ‘Above Average’. I hope at least one of them will read this and smile.

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A friend and I were salvaging old electronics at a landfill. We grabbed anything that might have computer chips. We sold the junk to a company that extracted the gold. The work was stinky and dirty, but we made good money at it.

I was scouting through the trash and saw something that caught my attention, a breast! I thought I had found a dead body! When I got closer, I saw it was one of those old-style sex robots. It would have a lot of chips in it! I walked over and started to pick it up. I must have pressed a hidden button, because it started to speak.

I thought it was odd that a female ‘bot had a man’s voice.

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“War god Ares is commonly portrayed as a violent brute, but his punishment for me was subtle, clever, and despicably evil.

My younger brother was and is the most famous soldier in history, Achilles. He died during the conquest of Troy in 1190 BC. Billions have read about him or watched movies about his exploits, even three millennia later.

I was there, and I saw him fall. I was terrified! If they could kill my brother, they might kill me too!