The Spoil Heap
ShortStory 6,640 words Recommended by 3 award/anthology sources
"Up on the spoil heap Morag found a robot. This wasn’t that unusual in and of itself. She was always finding them, or parts of them anyway, frozen in contorted attitudes like dinosaur fossils, plastic housing cracked and aluminum limbs splayed. What was different about this one was that it was walking."
Content warnings 2
deathviolence
Quasar links out; the story lives on Clarkesworld, where the author gets the click.