A Labor of Love
Who or what do you labor for?
9/7/20261 min read
I recently wrote a short story about a sentient fighter jet. Yes, you read that correctly. The protagonist is a sentient fighter jet jetting around doing what fighter jets do. I enjoyed building the character of a sentient jet's world and getting to the heart of what matters. My short story, Broken Arrow, examines what a sentient machine cares about, what breaks its heart and what, if anything, challenges its moral compass.
Broken Arrow starts with a glimpse into what excites the sentient fighter jet, opening with: I was blazing through the starry night sky, on a critical mission to drop a massive chrome dump. Just the very thing I was made for.
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