Pocket Wife by I. K. Paterson-Harkness

Author:I. K. Paterson-Harkness [Paterson-Harkness, I. K.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: new zealand horror, sci fi dystopia, Horror, technology horror, unreliable narrator
Publisher: Paper Road Press
Published: 2015-06-30T04:00:00+00:00

WHEN THE MEETING HAD finished, and Jane Frank had left for lunch without firing anyone yet, Michel shook my hand. He laughed and slapped me on the back. I was in deep shit. He knew it, I knew it.

I trooped down the corridor towards reception, full of dread, half hoping that after an entire night awake back in New Zealand Jenny had succumbed to exhaustion and was now fast asleep. But no luck there. Paulette-Pauline had propped Jenny’s Tiny up on a chair against the window, facing the full light of the midday sun and a ninety-eight-storey drop through clear glass.

‘She never said one word,’ Paulette-Pauline said, picking up Jenny’s Tiny in a familiar way and stroking its head. ‘She’s so amazingly life-like. So soft.’

I took the Tiny from her swiftly, and put it in my jacket’s inner pocket.

‘I’ve seen them in the pop-ups, but didn’t think I’d ever touch one,’ Paulette-Pauline continued, staring at my chest. ‘They’re for beautiful movie stars. The famous and the rich. You’re both so lucky!’

As the elevator took me back down to ground level I checked my vice. I had two missed calls from Madam Bellarina’s number.

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