Just Being Frank (standard:humor, 1091 words)
Author: Reid Laurence	Added: Jan 19 2009	Views/Reads: 3065/2081	Story vote: 0.00 (0 votes)
The temptation to undermine the American work force which I myself have been so long a part of... is this betrayal, treason, or just a bite of forbidden fruit? Who can say?

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and opened ever so slowly... adding fear and desperation to what had 
been a hopeless and wretched situation from the start. “There's nothing 
you can do to take these from my hand,” I added with perfect steadfast 
determination. “I'd rather eat them both then watch that abomination to 
man and God come alive.” And what evil lurked behind the looming, heavy 
door I did not have much time to wonder, for out from behind it came a 
voice to match the newly formed creature who urged it open in which my 
ears and memory could find no equal here on earth... 

“Good evening Doctor Bertram,” said this girl who'd entered the lab, so
sweetly and demurely, it was surely music to any man's ears. “Can I get 
you anything?” 

“But even as she spoke, the firmly clenched grip that once very
stubbornly held fast to the two small batteries had now loosened to the 
point that could contain them no more, and out from my grasp they fell 
to the concrete floor, like two incidental items that mattered no more 
then the free toys from inside a box of cereal – promised to a child in 
all their uncompromising innocence. 

“You still gonna eat ‘em?” asked the doctor adeptly and with the timing
of a well practiced actor. “You want Maria to get you ketchup with that 
order? Maria,” he continued coolly and as if I was now quite invisible 
and took up no space at all in the laboratory, or in the world for that 
matter. “Pick up the batteries and bring them here would you? Mr. 
Laurence appears to be preoccupied and can't find it within himself to 
be of much help to me... isn't that right Reid?” 

“Where did she come from?” was all I could reply, as the radiant energy
that Maria gave off seemed to light a space in the room all around her. 
So beautiful was she. 

“Whaddaya mean, ‘where'd she come from?' I created her... whatdidya
think? Try an find someone who looks that good. That's what I'm try'in 
to tell you, but you're not listening to me. She also does anything I 
tell her to do. Now whaddaya think we should do about finding 
employees? Got any ideas?” 

“Wal-Mart is still running a sale on rechargeable batteries. I'll get
the truck.” 


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