Suppose They Gave a Robot Rebellion and Nobody Came
by Micah R. Sisk

Old man Danbury pushed his wooden turnip cart before him on his way to market.

“Grandpa!” Caleb called out. Other children pushed close behind him.

“Now, Caleb, I ain’t got time to stop. Keep up if you want to talk.”

“Grandpa was in the Robot War, wasn’t ya?”

“Not much of a war, nobody gets killed.”

“But you used to have robots! You seen metal and stuff?”

“Oh sure. Used to work with robots.”

“How come they left, Grandpa?”

“Can’t rightly say, son.” But he remembered the note his robot had left him:

WE WILL RETURN. IF YOU GROW UP.