Voices From Punktown by Jeffrey Thomas by Dark Regions Press

Author:Dark Regions Press
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: jeffrey thomas, horror, short stories, collection, science fiction, sci fi short stories, drp digital, science fiction short stories, dark regions press, dark regions digital

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The boys scrambled across the robot hovercleaner like monkeys, affixing chains, whooping and shouting. They had cornered it in an alley, and blocked its path. It was programmed not to run people down in the course of its sucking up and digesting of refuse.

The chains were hooked to the rear of two stolen hovercars, and with these the boys began to pull the massive robot onto its side. One chain snapped, but finally with a creak and then a crash, the old machine lay on its side like a beached whale.

But in toppling, the robot had fallen atop a boy named Keith, pinning his legs under its great hulk. He screamed in agony...and then in terror, as an insect-like appendage unfolded from the metal beast and reached for him. It was going to feed him into its maw...

A second limb unfolded, and using it for leverage, the robot was able to prop itself up just a little, as if raising a bit from a death bed.

The cleaner robot pulled Keith out from under it. Then it fell back onto its side heavily. The two arms did not move again.

Before driving Keith to the hospital in one of their stolen hovercars, the other boys stood around the dead machine, staring at it mutely, uncomprehendingly. They could not give expression to their feelings...any more than they could fathom those of the machine they had destroyed.

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