Creative Story: Deadlock
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"Bzzz! Bzzz!" The alarm went off, and Susan Calvin rolled over. It was 6:30
in the morning, and RoboTimerâ„¢ had done its job admirably, waking her up to the
second of the time that it had been factory-programmed. Unfortunately, it hadn't
been set to the correct date, and when it announced "Saturda ....
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.... Equations and see why they were
causing all those robots to go psycho," she thought. "Good thing that U.S.
Robots and Mechanical Men hushed up that little incident, I'd be out of a job if
the whole world, the xenophobic and primally-fearful lot of them, knew about
that!" As she got out and buttered her toast, she mulled the day ahead of her in
her mind. Weekends were never truly weekends for Susan Calvin, as she was forced
to work for most of the weekend, with her only respite being Sunday ....
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Word count: 1526
Page count: 6 (approximately 250 words per page)
