By: Annna [2000-01-26]

Future Gazebos, Robots

Another postapocalyptic dream, this time with robots.


in-class Annna doodle


Oh, the world had ended or advanced or somehow become strange. There were streams and gazebos and domes all over. It looked like the World's Fair or a fairyland. The streams were oddly iridescent and viscous, but harmlessly so. Things were made of marble that had a pearly sheen. The clouds looked like a sunset all the time.

The whole place looked like M.C. Escher had designed it in a good mood.

I was the only person there. I lived in whichever building I wanted to. Many were very open air, like ruins of temples, and others were like abandoned banks. Very Greco-Roman, though. There were beds all over, and they were comfortable and smelled like line-dried sheets.

One day I woke up and went outside. On the marble steps was a sad robot. It looked like a crash test dummy, only somehow less realistic. It had a lot of trouble moving. I tried to talk to it, but it lit up in angry colors and started buzzing violently.

Then it fell over.

I tried to help it up, maybe get it somewhere more level than the steps, but it gave me an electric shock whenever I tried to touch it.

Well, fine. I walked away. There was a forest with translucent trees on the outskirts of town, and I spent some time in there. The trees were easy to climb. There were branches at very regular intervals.

Everything was crystalline in the forest. I climbed to the top of a tree and saw the town, the rest of the forest, and a shimmering desert around that. A cool breeze rattled the trees' leaves and it sounded like a windchime.

It started to get dark, so I went back into town. I stayed away from where I'd seen the robot and found somewhere to sleep.

The next day there was a very big canal going through the abandoned city. I wondered how it had gotten there.

There was a huge submarine partially submerged in it, too. I sat and watched it for a while. I thought about the book On the Beach for a little bit, but I'm not sure why.

The robot shambled into view. It walked into the water - didn't jump, just walked until there was no ground - and floundered to the submarine. A hatch opened and it climbed in.

The submarine became more animated. Electricity ran around its hull, sort of like in the movie Tron.

I didn't like the looks of that. The submarine started moving down the canal. I hid behind some ruins until it had left. I didn't want to know what the robot had planned for the submarine.
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