Let There Be Light
(SFFWorld.com Micro Fiction Contest Entry)
By Mike Pollock
“Initializing Day 7 Protocol.”
A single humanoid bot shuffled across worn tiles, slipping a vial of organic material into a large centrifuge. With a series of keystrokes on an LCD screen, it whirred to life.
“Material accepted.” The Caretaker AI responded.
“Do you think they’ll even know what we did here?” The bot shuffled back to its station to resume its eon’s long wait.
“My memory banks only stretch so far back, but aren’t they programmed with some kind of built-in lore?”
“Ah, yes,” the bot replied in a whimsical tone, “the Religion Code. I guess we are gods now.”
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