Parable of the Artificial Duck

[bob_tales]

What bothered Ballard the most about being a doll was that he didn’t feel like one. If Topher hadn't been grinning self-consciously at his bedside when he woke up, he could have gone on with the rest of his life thinking he'd just woken from a standard issue coma. But Topher was trying out this whole ethics thing lately, just for kicks, and

Comments

[derevko_child]

I love the way you wrote Ballard and his uncertainty with his new self. I love the way he analyzed everything about his self, failing to realize that the one thing/person/feeling his old self will be focused on is now gone. The ending is bittersweet.

Lovely fic. <3

[bob_tales]

Thank you for reading and commenting! I'm glad it came across that Ballard, despite all his worrying, failed to notice the one thing that was different in him.