New Short Story

Working life has been rather intense of late, but when not writing Salvage 7 (a piece of which I posted last week) I’ve been sifting through other short stories that haven’t yet seen the light of day. Some I’ve been submitting to competitions and the like, but some others I thought should go on here. This is one of them: ‘The Factory of Souls’.

There are plenty of SF stories and movies about sentient, human-like androids; Blade Runner, Humans, Detroit, and more. Usually they focus on how these childlike and idealistic intelligences interact with the real, grimy world – but fewer narratives delve into their construction. This story sort of does.

Download it here, or from the Short Stories page.