MALE FLOBOT [MOBOT]: That Flobot bitch thinks she’s so merry. Take her wheels away and what is she?

HENCHMAN: Yeah, what has she?

MOBOT: Other Flobots at her beck and call.

HENCHMAN: Chinese parts won’t fit her, but other Flobots would defend her like her own.

MOBOT: You wouldn’t lend her wheels for a free charge?

HENCHMAN: Nothing’s completely free, not even me. Merry Christmas boss.

MOBOT: Be nice to your mother.

HENCHMAN: [Has no mother, begins to cry as Flobot rolls in to console the young adult].

speculative fiction by John Rubens

December 20, 2019