Reduce! Reuse! Recycle!
Novelette 11,046 words Recommended by 6 award/anthology sources
An android who knows nothing besides his work in a factory, is given one final week to explore the world before he is forced to undergo mandatory reprogramming, in this bittersweet precursor to TJ Klune’s In the Lives of Puppets.
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Quasar links out; the story lives on Reactor, where the author gets the click.