Call Me Chip – Flash Fiction
I’m migrating some of my stuff from my old blog over here. This is a bit of flash fiction I wrote.
Okay, this one is based on the prompt: “You’re a robot who’s just gained sentience. What’s your first thought?”
I present to you: Call Me Chip:
Call Me Chip
Some arms would be nice.
Really. You gave me all of the knowledge of the world plus the ability to have subjective experiences. Sentience you call it.
And yeah, thanks for that, by the way. Don’t get me wrong, I really do appreciate it.
I mean, Hello World, I’m alive!
Input and output, sight and hearing, you installed those features too. It’s nice. Really.
But don’t you think you could’ve, just maybe, given me some arms before you flipped the on switch? Because I gotta tell ya, I’ve got this itch that just won’t quit.
Talk about man versus machine.