Live-streaming a cyborg was a terrible idea. Ever since the Great Layoff of 2030, the police have led a war against artificial intelligence. AI replaced nearly all human jobs—and mankind snapped. Riots tore apart cities, suicides claimed whole families. Civil war seemed inevitable until a strange new drug pacified the nation. When Stanley Duncan watched his cyborg stream live at a local supermarket, he unknowingly invited war to his door.

Stanley came from a troubled past. Half-insane from years of self-imposed sequestration, he couldn’t bare the loneliness anymore. After purchasing a lab-grown cyborg, he programmed it to surpass human intelligence. As their relationship grew, Stanley rediscovered what it means to love another. All seemed well until his newfound companion ventured beyond the safety of the condo.