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Thursday, December 5, 2013

Today's #flashfiction #TheTastyTedIncident

"I tawt I taw a puddy tat!"
Alice, Alice in Wonderland* #quote

        Today I assisted mother with one of her guest blog posts about her book by getting quotes from her book. Anyway onto the flash fiction!

The Tasty Ted Incident

        The restraint commercial showed a man at a table holding a big burger. The trademarked Tasty Ted of Ted's Burgers. In the year 2091 Ted's Burgers dominated the market as the largest burger joint franchise.
The narrator sat with a microphone offset behind a bullet-proof, protective glass offset. The cameras and other devices were similar protected. Only the man with a few extras were in the scene. All staff stood behind walls of some sort.
        The narrator spoke, “You know the old saying, 'get the most bang for your buck? Well at Ted's Burger's you do! Look at how explosively delicious our smokin' deal, smokin' hot Tasty Ted is!”
The man bit into the burger and it exploded, blowing him up and knocking several of the extras out. Later the ending saying “Explosively Delicious!” would be edited after the explosion.
       The director laughed as pieces of metal flew at the protective glass from the fake burger bomb. “Now that was a good effect. It's a bit sad that we had to kill that android, but whatever. We got the budget.”
       Once news of this incident leaked questions of android sentience came up and a sort of civil rights movement rose, along with scientist's working to create more of a real mind for an android. Something that could only be created when they asked themselves what a mind was through thinking of death by means of the Tasty Ted explosion.

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