Title: Engineer Smith
Author: Jay Lancaster
Publisher: loveyoudivine
Length: Short Story, 27 pages
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Blurb:
Smith has always been happier in the world of computers. Input/output is so very straightforward. It’s not a principle that can be applied to Smith’s relationship with Nell, the older woman who took beautiful, ambiguous, androgynous Smith under her wing a few years before. As the relationship matures, so, too, do Smith and Nell. But will they grow together…or apart? Smith’s feelings threaten to tear them apart, and the answers can only be found if Smith breaks the silence and asks the right questions. Asking Nell might destroy their fragile peace; Smith turns to the one logical source to be trusted: Larn, the Artificial Intelligence System. But Larn is advanced; he now learns from each human interaction and can reprogram himself. And Smith starts to understand that desire is not always based on mere physical attraction. But how deep can a relationship run when one party is human and the other is just learning to be human?
