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Broken Smiles
Derek owns the auto shop that his father started. but in this modern age, his job feels stale. Self-driving cars don’t need many repairs. The computer handles most of the work once done with real tools, leaving him bored beyond belief. He can fake happiness with a smile on his face, but the emoji on his arm doesn’t lie. Every day, the government-implanted chip in his arm frowns at him and becomes a deeper shade of blue. His friends and family worry about him, knowing the dangers if he doesn’t tune-up his attitude soon. Derek’s mental state can’t slip down any further. Otherwise, someone might come to fix him. From the author of Oxygen comes a terrifying look at an alternate reality not so far off in our possible future. Does contain explicit language.
36 pages, Paperback
Published June 27, 2017
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Dawn Blair
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September 19, 2017
“You know, my grandmother always had a saying: To err is human, but to really foul things up takes a computer.
Derek sat in the café’s outside dining area listening to the soft purr of electric engines as scooters and self-driving cars went by. Somewhere in the hum of all the early morning traffic was an older model vehicle. He could tell. It made him miss his father. It made him miss a lot of things.
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Imagine having one of these on your arm and it being against the law not to have it. And if you are "broken"...
Personally, I've always found the popularity of Emoji's perplexing... I think they can be cute and funny but other than that *shrugs* (At work, there is a Adult Full length pajama/onesie (?) thing with the Poop Emoji on it... why?) So when I saw the cover I wasn't sure what to think but when it went on sale on Amazon (as of today its .99 *9/18/17*) figured I'd give it a shot.
An interesting, quick read. The only quibble, sort of, is I wish it had been longer... I wouldn't have minded seeing more of the world and how everything came to be (not a complaint per-say, a compliment).. Especially with
We get hints but not the whole picture.
Would recommend:)
Derek sat in the café’s outside dining area listening to the soft purr of electric engines as scooters and self-driving cars went by. Somewhere in the hum of all the early morning traffic was an older model vehicle. He could tell. It made him miss his father. It made him miss a lot of things.
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Imagine having one of these on your arm and it being against the law not to have it. And if you are "broken"...
Personally, I've always found the popularity of Emoji's perplexing... I think they can be cute and funny but other than that *shrugs* (At work, there is a Adult Full length pajama/onesie (?) thing with the Poop Emoji on it... why?) So when I saw the cover I wasn't sure what to think but when it went on sale on Amazon (as of today its .99 *9/18/17*) figured I'd give it a shot.
An interesting, quick read. The only quibble, sort of, is I wish it had been longer... I wouldn't have minded seeing more of the world and how everything came to be (not a complaint per-say, a compliment).. Especially with
We get hints but not the whole picture.
Would recommend:)
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