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Keegan’s Companions
by Mark McLaughlin

KEEGAN’S COMPANIONS is a short story on Kindle, available for only 99 cents. Also available on Kindle Unlimited.

US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C9SPK2GC
UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0C9SPK2GC

Like McLaughlin’s novel, HUMAN DOLL, it is a horror/science-fiction tale set in the entertainment industry.

Keegan Bray is one of the world’s wealthiest men, and his latest business obsession is artificial intelligence. His new company, Keegan’s Companions, is making robotic AI consorts using doll technology. Keegan’s Companions are fashioned after top models, film actresses, and other feminine celebrities applauded for being beautiful and physically exceptional. More importantly, the companions have intelligence and can carry on a conversation.

But Allegra, the prototype of Keegan’s Companions, finds fitting into the human world harder than she could ever have imagined with her robotic brain…