A NOVEL IN THE MAKING

I, Robot Soldier

Prologue

Joel R. Dennstedt
Published in
5 min readNov 27, 2023

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Robot soldier sitting in a shelter.
Image created by the Author on MidJourney

I awakened to the aftermath of war.

No longer connected to Mother Grid (Mama G.), I found myself lost and confused. Also, I was wounded. I still had a functioning right arm that I used to target rats and members of the cockroach colony I’d joined. The automatic spray option and the beam selector were inoperable, hence the new name I…

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