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[icaruslived]

“Forgive me, Father, for I have never sinned.”

Father Ena Lovelace started, in the empty confessional. The voice was quiet, and careful, probably male. But it had had no clear source, and there definitely wasn’t anyone in the booth.

And it had very clearly said “never”.

“What makes you say that, my child?”

A pause. She took the opportunity to scan

Comments

[medleymisty]

Oooh, very interesting. Complete with using female pronouns for a person called Father, and neat ideas, and yay I like it!

[icaruslived]

The conceit of a female Father is one I stumbled upon pretty much by accident, but I quite like it. Traditions are traditiony things, even when the underlying institutions reform themselves, right?

[theun4givables]

I have to admit, that last question at the end gets me. I smiled widely at it.

I was raised Catholic; I am highly familiar with the confessional. :) It amused me, to see it used this way, for a complete soul.

[icaruslived]

I watched so many confessional scenes before writing this. For research. Yup. Uh huh.

[n3m3sis43]

This reminded me of something else you wrote, with the gender-bending of the pronouns versus the titles. I can't remember what, though, because my memory is ass. The whole concept of this piece was super cool, and the ending amused me. Nice take on the topic.

[icaruslived]

Not sure that was me! :p Thanks though :p

[suesniffsglue]

Very clever and creative!

[icaruslived]

Thank you!

[crisp_sobriety]

There's a lot of very interesting stuff going on here. I loved the discussion of complete and incomplete souls --it brings to mind old questions of morality, which is supposedly immutable, when conceived in the minds of humans, who are anything but.

I also appreciate that the Father was a she. That detail made me smile.

Great work!

[icaruslived]

Yeaaah. And AI morality is basically a legitimate open research field right now that I may have lifted some stuff from, so, yaknow :p