I’m writing a blog about a story I’m gonna write, because studies show the internet loves meta.
Anywho, I’m writing and old crime noir story about a cop that’s investigating a rash of suicides.
The deceased are all middle aged to older men who have purchased cyberlife companions, you know, sex robots or cyborg wives or whatever you want to call them. Upon further investigation all the cyborg companions are highly sophisticated and modified versions that may or may not belong to the feds. I’ve been told not to talk about it as there are highly classified elements in play.
Anyway, men are killing themselves and no one knew why until we began hacking into their robot companions. Its revealed a sad and twisted tale. The men were being blackmailed by the company that built the robots. The men would sign what they thought was a fixed 30 year contract and after a hefty down payment and 12 monthly payments, BAM!, their monthly payment would double. They’d all unwittingly signed contracts with an adjustable rate, so there was no legal recourse. If the owner did not pay the robot could be disposed of anyway the company saw fit as it was rightfully their property. If they didn’t pay the robot was programmed to self destruct. To make matters worse the women robots all told the men beforehand that they were killing themselves because the men obviously didn’t love them. In some cases, the grief stricken men killed themselves before the robot ever had a chance. Records showed that many of the men could barely afford the robot spouse as it was, doubling the payments had literally killed them or that’s what I was out to prove.
