Five Sentence Fiction – Silver

Five Sentence Fiction – Silver

SILVER

The theft case was bizarre, no broken locks or windows, no foot or fingerprints but all the silver items were stolen.The house was locked for seven days as the owners went on vacation, however,  the robot, which was hired for cleaning and polishing silver items, was deactivated and left inside resting in its marked place.

No one was to know that a simple machine, not expected to have any emotion, would get bored with his assigned job of daily cleaning and polishing silver and take the opportunity of staying alone to get rid of boredom.

At night it activated itself, opened the back side window and threw all the silver items out of it, then closed the window, came to its resting place, and deactivate itself.

It hated his tedious job and punished the owner for forcing it to do it daily.

(robot committed suicide in Austria )