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> > > The front door closed behind him and I locked it. I adjusted the thermostat and turned off all the lights. I felt lonely almost at once. Ken installed and activated me on Saturday and we spent the whole weekend together getting to know one another. And now for the first time I had to face being unoccupied. All alone for ten hours, maybe more. 36 million milliseconds. Sigh. That thought used three of them. 35,999,997 to go.... > >

> > > “Houseproud” originally appeared in the SciFutures “City of the Future” anthology and also won the Berkeley Machine Intelligence Research Institute prize for Intelligence in Fiction. > >

> > > Laurence Raphael Brothers is a writer and technologist. He has worked in R&D at such firms as Bell Communications Research and Google, and he has five patents along with numerous industry publications. His areas of expertise include Internet and cloud-based applications, artificial intelligence, telecom applications, and online games. > >

Laurence Raphael Brothers' Website

Podcast of Houseproud at Escape Pod

A big thank you to @laurence for permission to post his work here.

@laurence I just read Houseproud and it's the best short form science fiction I've read in years. Your dialogue is top notch. May I have your permission to post it on the community magazine I mod - @13thFloor?

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