
Genres: Artificial Intelligence, Robot
Escape Pod 772: A Wild Patience (Part 1 of 3)
A Wild Patience (Part 1 of 3)
by Gwynne Garfinkle
We first noticed something was off one April afternoon when Jessica and I came home from school and Mom had lopped her hair off. Though we probably should’ve known something was going on a week or two before that when Cecilia Ivers’ mom started baking cakes full of Tabasco sauce and pickles (bizarre but good).
But anyway, we walked in the front door, and Mom came out of the living room to greet us. Her hair looked cool, and cool was just about the last word I ever would’ve used to describe her. It looked weird, and that was cool. Jessica let out a whistle of startled appreciation. She wanted to cut her hair short and dye it purple, but she knew our dad would freak.
Mom smiled. “Do you like it, Jessie?”
“It’s so not like you,” Jessica blurted out, and added, “No offense!” Up until this point, Mom always had boring mom-hair. (We’d never seen any photos of her from before she met Dad.)
“None taken,” Mom said. “Absolutely none.” There was something strangely intense about the way she said it.