SpeedyKleen knows that cleaning the battlebot arena is a Verified Good. But one day, a panic attack brings back traumatic memories of when it too was a battlebot at top of the arena stats, and its painful fall. Now a repurposed cleanerbot, it must figure out how to prevent any battlebot from being hurt again... even if it means going up against the other battlebots themselves.
Effie Seiberg is a fantasy and science fiction writer.
Her stories can be found in the "Women Destroy Science Fiction!" edition of Lightspeed Magazine (winner of the 2015 British Fantasy Award for Best Anthology), "The Best of Galaxy's Edge 2015-2017", Analog, Fireside Fiction, and PodCastle, amongst others. Her stories include a finalist in the AnLab Awards and an honorable mention in the Year's Best YA Speculative Fiction.