High Tech Fiction writing prompt
The Emotional Robot
In a future where every citizen is assigned a robot companion at birth, write from the perspective of a robot who develops emotions and begins to question the ethical implications of their society's dependence on artificial beings.
Suggested length: A short story: 1,500 to 5,000 words, or flash fiction under 1,000
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- 1Shrink the stakes to one family, one street, one night.
- 2Choose one ordinary object and show how this world changed it.
- 3Start in the middle of the strangest moment, and explain nothing for a page.
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