Writing Prompt

The city had just recovered from an earthquake that wiped out millions of people.

It’s been 5 days since the earthquake happened. And the government had set up a refugee camp trying to connect survivors and families back while the military and police continued to work hard in searching for anyone who’s still alive or trapped.

Mia a 6 years old girl is trapped in a 12 story building, a Tech com...

Jessica was the only one who said hello to the pink robot.

His sweet demeanor and light-pink color was just so appealing, and he was exactly her height. Jessica could look into his deep black eyes every morning as he held the door of the subway open for her. She even waved as it rolled away, leaving him alone on the platform.

Jessica would always watch out the window somberly as she left her fri...

My daughter and myself walked into the market. We were looking for something new. Something that would spark the imagination. There were stores that had some of the latest electronic gadgets around but nothing that really caught Maria’s attention. She looked up with her brown eyes and said “Daddy I’m looking for a friend.”, “Don’t you have a lot of friends at school?” I asked her. She looked at me...

The days where playing with blocks and dolls seem to be a thing of the ancient past. Now kids are left to bond with pieces of metal and hardwire, well extremely intelligent pieces of hardwire. Children’s minds are fresh, unprogrammed. They see the physical differences yes, but internally there is no difference. Their minds being vast and open, ready to invite in and explore all the world has to of...

“Mom, do robots count as strangers?”

“Huh?”

“Do… Robots… Count… As… Strangers?”

Her mother finally looked up. “Oh. I… I don’t know.”

Susan rolled her eyes at her mother. She was only four, but she had seen her mother do that same thing over and over again to her father. It seemed the thing to do now. Even though she was not sure what the word was for what she was feeling.

...

Look mama! Shes nice!

No! No no no! Mae, remener what mommy said.

Mama said Stay away from the robots. But this ones nice.

No shes dead! Come on Mae lets leave....

Human connection is the essence of life. The feeling of talking to a new friend about shared interests, expressing how much you love your partner, the touch of a mother’s hand. Real, genuine, living attachment is required for survival. This little girl, Lucy, experiences artificially intelligent machines everyday. They greet her when she walks into her favorite toy store, they cook her the food th...

She looked at the smooth skin of the machine, its eyes wide, softly looking back at her, a smile drawn perfectly across the surface of its face. Even though she was only nine, she could tell that this was not quite human, but it was humanlike. She reached out and touched it, and as she did it exclaimed in an overly cheerful tone “Greetings! So nice to meet you! I am Bobot-733#2. Whats your name?”...

It was her first time entering the metaverse. It’s something she dreamed of her whole life, but the law didn’t allow anyone under the age of 10 to enter.

As she approached the portal, her excitement switched to fear. She had seen and heard and read about it a million times, but the reality of it was completely different than she expected.

“Will this actually work? Is it safe? How can this be...

All the boys at school

Run away from me

They say

They don’t like my country

All the girls at school

Won’t share their baby dolls

They say

I will never be as pretty as them

And now

My Mommy left me here

She says

That my test scores are bad

And I need to get smarter

If I’m not pretty,

If I’m not smart,

And if I’m not from the right home,

If everyone keeps leaving,

Then why am I here?

Who a...