Jasmine’s Reviews > Tangled Wires > Status Update

Everything stopped mattering to me when you died. When your heart stopped, I might as well have died too for as much as I cared. I recreated your body exactly. You are singular in my universe. Please assume that I’m fully invested in having you be my other half.”

Matthew knows me, inside and out because he has watched me, given me time and attention. Figured out the way I am wired. I am probably simple to him, my brain a picture book where he can point and say, “And here is where she keeps her anxiety. This portion here is specifically related to abandonment issues from her father.”

“Really Matthew, maybe you should check your programming; dial back on your motherliness. I’m not your concern.” Petty, so petty, but sometimes when I open my mouth one of the barbs that make up the tangled state of my heart reveals itself.

I always feel shabby next to him, a stupid feeling because I am real; a living human being, flaws included. While Matthew is an ingenious creation; designed to the very last toe hair, a contraption of moving parts, polymer-based artificial skin, 3D printed organs, and supercomputer brain. Matthew Smith is Clark Simpson’s masterpiece, his pride and joy.