
Thanks to dear Rochelle for hosting Friday Fictioneers and to Ted for the photo.

We did our usual walk today, me and ma, our favourite route. A calm space to mull over daily life. Today was different.‘Hey ma, who or what is this ?’‘A heap of metal I’d say, a defunct drone ?.
‘No no, I think it’s a baby bird, it seems so helpless, or injured?’
‘Leave it Cissy, we should walk away. If it is a weird baby bird, its mother will abandon it if we touch it’.
‘Where is it’s mother ? I can’t walk away, its eyes are sad.’
‘What’s the deafening noise above us ?’
‘A huge drone , run for it ma.’
August 15, 2021 at 5:30 pm
Oh hell! Get outta there, fast!
What a great take, Francine!
August 15, 2021 at 6:49 pm
So glad you liked the story Dale, thanks.
August 15, 2021 at 7:08 pm
I did!
August 15, 2021 at 11:05 am
Dear Francine,
Moral to the story…never mess with baby drones. Run! Good one.
Shalom,
Rochelle
August 15, 2021 at 6:58 pm
Good moral Rochelle : never mess with baby drones !
August 14, 2021 at 9:35 pm
That was brilliant. Little baby drones and big angry mother drones, we all better run and hide. 🙂
August 15, 2021 at 7:09 pm
Thanks, pleased you liked the story. The photo image seemed so vulnerable to me – funny isn’t it what vibe we get from a photo.
August 14, 2021 at 4:44 am
I pray machines never learn how to self-replicate. This is a chilling tale!
August 15, 2021 at 7:28 pm
I agree Jade. I imagine that machines will evolve very gradually, ‘under the radar” til guess they can.
August 13, 2021 at 8:03 am
If that’s its mother, it’s just as well they didn’t touch it 😮
August 15, 2021 at 7:38 pm
You’re right Ali. Imagine a large angry drone following you home..
August 13, 2021 at 5:09 am
That’s the way invasive species take over: some one brings home a cute little drone on a whim. When it gets too needy or big, dump it off at the local park. All it takes is someone else abandoning their once cute little drone grown to big, and you’re got a breeding pair. . .
August 15, 2021 at 7:30 pm
What an interesting parallel Lorraine. Quite a scarey prospect isn’t it ?
August 13, 2021 at 1:01 am
Yikes!
August 15, 2021 at 7:42 pm
Thanks Linda, yikes indeed.
August 12, 2021 at 5:50 pm
Once they start breeding we’re in real trouble