ACTRON: THE END #15
ACTRON: THE END
#15
by Stanley Lieber
K.A.R.L. had broken down.
Reader, he was out of warranty. There was nothing Thomas could do but complain.
Which he proceeded to do.
"What a piece of junk."
He kicked the defective equipment. K.A.R.L. just sat there and took it. Thomas considered it endemic to his kind. Accept any amount of abuse from a recognized authority figure. He couldn’t relate.
Pause for firmware update.
The shuttle resumed its journey.
Thomas counted to one hundred, two hundred, three hundred, and beyond. When he finally finished he had lost his place.
So, he started over.
One thought continued to surface: who was the voice counting in his head?
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