In a post-pandemic future, a robot caregiver to an elderly woman with dementia discovers old love letters from her long-dead husband, and tries to process their meaning as she's dying.
This short story was a winner of the 2013 Litreactor Sci-Fi Writing Challenge, where participants were asked to submit their best stories under 5000 words that incorporated either a utopian or dystopian setting, a non-human character, and a plausible future technology.
In a post-pandemic future, a robot caregiver to an elderly woman with dementia discovers old love letters from her long-dead husband, and tries to process their meaning as she's dying.
This short story was a winner of the 2013 Litreactor Sci-Fi Writing Challenge, where participants were asked to submit their best stories under 5000 words that incorporated either a utopian or dystopian setting, a non-human character, and a plausible future technology.