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in Freewriters9 months ago

There was a zapfic released yesterday, that uses the prompt word 'Robotics' which I thought would be a great one to come up with an interesting little story.

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The engineer flicked a switch.

Sparks flew, smoke billowed. A large bang kicked the iron scrap to life.

"What is my prime objective?" it engaged its motor-functions.

"Beautiful." Head of development drooled. "It'll be a war machine."

The engineer took a look at his creation. "Kill everyone but me."


I say it often, but I'll say it again. I love these small zapfic stories, my favourite being this one, the zapfic 50, which I always find easier to write a concise short story; as opposed to the 240-character ones, which always tend to be more difficult.

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There are so many ways this could go totally and utterly wrong 😆

"Look mum, I made a Berserker".....

I think it could be an interesting premise for a stand-alone short, where someone makes a robot, and accidently causes it go mad.

The engineer took a look at his creation. "Kill everyone but me."

This could actually be a real problem in the future. By design or accident, a robot could just get out of hand, and we're all going to have a very bad day.

Hahaha, that's the thing.

I was going to have him say something that gets taken litrally by the robot, but just couldn't fit in so went for this instead.