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Obsolete Comfort-Dolls
Oct. 29th, 2007 05:20 pmThey were obsolete. They sat on the shop's back cabinet and sighed to each other. "Nobody likes blondes anymore," complained the curvaceous doll.
The redhead scoffed at her. "That's not true, silly. Just nobody likes you. I saw the markers out front--blondes sell most."
"Why not me?"
"Because you're not the type they're looking for," the brunette spoke up, turning her head and staring directly at them with her empathic brown eyes. "They're looking for the later dolls."
"Those things?" the blonde protested. "You can't hardly tell they're supposed to be human!"
"They're not," chimed in the black-haired doll reclining on top of the cabinet, inspecting her nails. "They're something else. We're all meant to be human--"
Status: Written as "Unloved Dolls." Published under a pseudonym at Ruthie's Club (currently closed, plans to reopen in 2010) in the Valentine's Day 2009 issue.
Inspiration: "obsolete"
Story Potential: High. I find this creepy.
Notes: Right, so the (Japanese and elsewhere) trend for sex dolls, along with more human-like robots and better AI, is naturally leading in this direction. Duh. That's old news. But when the more human-like models swing out of fashion? What do they do? This could be done as erotica, but I think it would be more effective played as...ahem...straight science fiction. Heck, I could write 'em both.
The redhead scoffed at her. "That's not true, silly. Just nobody likes you. I saw the markers out front--blondes sell most."
"Why not me?"
"Because you're not the type they're looking for," the brunette spoke up, turning her head and staring directly at them with her empathic brown eyes. "They're looking for the later dolls."
"Those things?" the blonde protested. "You can't hardly tell they're supposed to be human!"
"They're not," chimed in the black-haired doll reclining on top of the cabinet, inspecting her nails. "They're something else. We're all meant to be human--"
Status: Written as "Unloved Dolls." Published under a pseudonym at Ruthie's Club (currently closed, plans to reopen in 2010) in the Valentine's Day 2009 issue.
Inspiration: "obsolete"
Story Potential: High. I find this creepy.
Notes: Right, so the (Japanese and elsewhere) trend for sex dolls, along with more human-like robots and better AI, is naturally leading in this direction. Duh. That's old news. But when the more human-like models swing out of fashion? What do they do? This could be done as erotica, but I think it would be more effective played as...ahem...straight science fiction. Heck, I could write 'em both.
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