A New Lease on Life

[aldersprig]

Written to @lilfluff's prompt: 
Leaving home for a weekend and returning to find your home and entire neighborhood has been replaced.
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“My house is gone!”

Ed Lawton was furious.  He slammed his fist down on the counter, leaned forward, and got as close to the clerk as he could.  

The New Lease on Life clerk seemed entirely unbothered by this.  While Ed wasn’t going to give an inch, he found himself wondering if the woman was one of the new android models he’d been hearing about.  

Or maybe she just heard this a lot.  “The brochure said ‘Get away from it all.’ sir.  And you have, indeed, gotten away from it all.”

read on…

Comments

[thnidu]

!!

[aldersprig]

??

[thnidu]

Thumbs up! (See previous icon, same as this one.) I like it! and want to see where it goes.

[sauergeek]

I'm thinking that no small value of the shock here is that he even has those choices, instead of continuing in the path he'd been in for however long. I feel like this one is complete: once he's over the initial surprise and indignation, he realizes that there's a choice to be made, and goes off to discuss it. What the choice ends up being isn't terribly relevant, unless you want to use this as an intro piece into a story about one of those available choices. Intriguing!

[aldersprig]

Hooray a complete piece! :-D

[clare_dragonfly]

That's certainly one way to get colonists!