Sex Robot Challenge - And The Winner Is...

Aaaallll the way back at the end of January/beginning of February, I set a challenge. I'm very late doing this follow-up, but since my paid workload increased and Vocal doesn't pay my bills, I'm not even sorry, sorry.

The Challenge closed on the 29th February, but if you use the prompt I'd still love to see what you come up with anyway! Please do link to it in the comments. (You just definitely probably won't get a tip for it). I'd appreciate it if you link back to me, but I'm not going to send the heavies round to you if you don't or anything. You know, you do you.

Here's a reminder of the challenge, which I first wrote about here:

A Prompt and a CHALLENGE - February

Write me a story about a sex robot

Make it rude, make it clever, make me squirm (you know I hate erotica). Explore themes of sexuality, consent and psychology, have a message and paint it in metallic red lipgloss that won't smudge.

Submit to Filthy, Sci Fi, or fiction

Word limit the same as the others - 300-366!

Link to it in the comments

Closing date is the 28th

Judging on the 29th

$10 to the winner and $5 to a runner up

My scribbles, collated

I used this prompt three times in February as part of my personal challenge to write a story every day. Of course I'm not counting any of these in the challenge. That would hardly be very fair would it. Anyway, for your enborement, here's my sexy sci-fi scribblings (actually not that sexy, as it turns out):

Do Androids Dream of Murder?

These Green Eyes Don't Cry

My Sex Robot

Right, now we've got those out of the way, here goes...

Thank you

First of all, thank you to everyone who joined in. I enjoyed every single piece enormously (please stop sniggering).

The Entries

Programmable Lies by Lamar Wiggins

This one reads (if you'll excuse the expression) tongue in cheek. It's a good mix of humour and just the right amount of raunchy for me. It has little twists along the way I didn't see coming (please, just stop).

Stand out line, for me:

I watched her for weeks frozen in the same position at the kitchen sink, holding a crystal mug she was in the process of putting away.

This kind of encapsulates the whole idea for me - the vulnerability, servitude, the possibility of violation. Yeuch! Brilliant!

+++++

Of Lance and Gwen by D.J Reddall

The end absolutely delighted me. I suck at endings. I wish I could write them as beautifully as this!

Stand out line, for me:

It's the last one, but I won't ruin it by including it here. Read it for yourself and enjoy it the same way I did 😁

+++++

Forever Mine by Tressa Rose

Exactly as horrible and creepy as I hoped it would be! It gives you a chilling moment where you think, "wait, could that actually happen? It couldn't, could it?"

Stand out line, for me:

I found it an offer I couldn't resist

+++++

Good Ol’ Quality Time by Oneg In The Arctic

Loved the descriptions in this, especially, "packing peanuts shedding like confetti".

Stand out line, for me:

“It’s nice to meet you, may I come touch you?”

Nice, even a robot can manage the concept of consent!

+++++

The Runner Up

Alexander McEvoy's Galatea

I love the deliberate use of it and her. It's a little bit sinister, and it's beautifully written, like you would expect from Alexander.

Stand out line, for me:

Shelly refused to believe that I hadn't bought the gynoid

I just love the term "gynoid", and I seethe gently that I didn't come up with it.

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The Winner:

Gerald DiLeo's Living Doll™

It's clever, it's thought provoking, it's packed with word-play, it's even a little heart-breaking. He makes her too perfect. He goes as far as it's possible to go, in my opinion, to make her human. I love it!

Stand out line, for me:

She could straddle him, unshakeable in an earthquake, unless she were the earthquake and, yes, the Earth moved for him.

+++++

Thank you, Alexander and Gerald. Your paltry winnings will e winging their way to you shortly.

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Thank you for reading!

Links incoming!