A Heist in Fifteen Products from the Orion Spur's Longest-Running Catalog
ShortStory 3,797 words Recommended by 2 award/anthology sources
"Mom always insisted everyone is family at Tollnacher Stimmacher, but I’m the only one she ever adopted. Twenty-five years ago, I was an orphan on the Earth colony, Lulularia. Mom raised me as her own despite my being human and her being a robot. Ever since I was a kid, Mom kept a Fabricator in her invention studio beside the Tollnacher Stimmacher factory."
Quasar links out; the story lives on Clarkesworld, where the author gets the click.