The Shackles of Fashion: Science Fiction

She was all smiles, eager to please, eager to try out the new fashion line, until she saw the projected image. Then she understood why they had picked her. What better image, what better way to stir up controversy through fashion, then by hiring a manumitted cyborg and having her model the latest in stylish shackle-wear? She flinched away from the picture, the reflection of herself in the heels impossible for a normal human to balance in and attached to chains around the ankles. The image had heavy chains wrapped around her arms, too, a weight beyond what a human could bear, and she knew without asking that she would be expected to pose with her arms up and out. She had so hoped that this would be the beginning of a new start, the beginning of what her life had been before the car accident and the news that the only way she could survive ambulatory would be to sign the cyborg contract and accept the indenture.


Inspiration: http://ontd-political.livejournal.com/9758645.html
Story Potential: High.
Notes: Because becoming a cyborg is expensive. Choice to make here: to comment on race or to avoid race? Avoiding seems the wuss way out.