I’m a big fan of #Sally Cronin‘s short stories and have thoroughly enjoyed all I’ve read. But this one takes the gold. Depending on which side of the fence you sit regarding A.I. technology, this will either unnerve or impress you 🙂
The System Administrator by Sally Cronin
Jennifer stood in the middle of the lift and stared at her black leather pumps. She noticed a scuff on the left side of the toe of the right shoe, realising that she had kicked the full waste basket a little harder than she thought at the time. She was weary and unusually tearful. It had been a tough week all round with particularly hard advertising revenue to achieve, but it had ended on the sourest note of all.
She managed a team of fifty telephone sales canvassers who sold high end car and luxury property advertising for the national online paper she worked for. These days both those markets were tough going. It seemed that people were hanging onto high ticket items waiting for a rise in demand for both.
However, her boss who lived in his ivory tower of an office on…
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Thank you so much for sharing Tina. You are right it is unnerving but exciting to be on the edge of sharing our world with a new species. Probably not in my lifetime but one day it could get really interesting!! hugs ♥♥
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Most welcome, Sally. Perhaps not in this lifetime, but when we return, Data might be our new President! 🙂 Hugs ❤
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Oh my what an improvement!! hugs ♥
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A fabulous short story from Sal kicking up the heat some notches with a different genre. ❤ Hugs muskees! xoxo
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Ditto that, Deb! đź’•
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Ohhh I’ll have to head over to take a read 🙂
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You’ll love it, Christy 🙂
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