The Distant Future?

September 1, 2019Chel Owens

Sar hadn’t asked for the label. Yet it read the words, printed as real as antique monitor messages, across the eyes of its odious foreperson, Grug: Safebreaker’s Daughter.

Safebreaker?

Daughter?

Sar was neither. It knew that its donors had worked as Chief Containment Coders, and it was as sex neutral as the suncycle it’d slid from Birthing to Intubating.

Still, Sar would do Grug’s dirty work. The barely-above-cyborg-level-of-computing foreperson forgot one imperative fact: that Sar, like all others of its training, always ran monitoring equipment.

It wondered what excuses Grug would blubber to the High Council later. Sar smiled.

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Seen in future times for Carrot Ranch‘s prompt this week: the safebreaker’s daughter. Join in!

August 29, 2019, prompt: In 99 words (no more, no less) write a story about the safebreaker’s daughter. Who is she, what did she do, and where? Go where the prompt leads you!

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Norah September 2, 2019 / 5:06 am

Well done, Chelsea. That’s an original response. Way to go, Sar!

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- Chelsea Owens September 2, 2019 / 7:36 am
  
  🙂 I blame my brain.
  
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  - Norah September 2, 2019 / 9:40 pm
    
    Congratulate your brain, then!
    
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lensdailydiary September 2, 2019 / 11:06 am

Foreshadowing the future. Different kind of a story Chelsea.

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- Chelsea Owens September 2, 2019 / 11:24 am
  
  Indeed, and indeed.
  
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H.R.R. Gorman September 2, 2019 / 12:30 pm

Enjoyed the sci-fi take.

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- Chelsea Owens September 2, 2019 / 3:18 pm
  
  You and Joanne inspire me. 🙂
  
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  - H.R.R. Gorman September 3, 2019 / 8:39 am
    
    Aww, thank you!
    
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Jules September 3, 2019 / 12:28 pm

Blame the programmers. When AI becomes too incorporated in my life… I won’t be living anymore – at least I hope not. 😉

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- Chelsea Owens September 3, 2019 / 1:48 pm
  
  Same here!
  
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Charli Mills September 3, 2019 / 12:49 pm

Nice piece of speculative fiction, Chelsea! Some truths are universal — underestimation remains a weak link.

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- Chelsea Owens September 3, 2019 / 1:48 pm
  
  Thanks, Charli!
  
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Lisa Bradshaw September 5, 2019 / 8:28 am

Don’t want to live in that world but so well written..

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- Chelsea Owens September 5, 2019 / 1:23 pm
  
  We’ll see where the world turns to.
  
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