Robot Blues

Cover Robot Blues
Genres: Fiction
Anonymous   The gray-haired man in the room six down from Darlene told the little boy on the screen, “Wait just a minute, will you, son?” He stood up and walked to the door. He watched Darlene stop in front of the lift.
She tapped her foot nervously and irritably on the deck, hit the lift button several times in an effort to hurry it along. When the lift finally arrived, she darted into it.
The doors shut.
The man waited a moment longer, just to make certain she hadn’t forgotten something or de
...cided for some other reason to come back.
Leaving his door ajar, he walked back to the vid-phone. “Uh, I gotta go now, Jason. Sorry I can’t be there for your big game, but you know how it is. Daddy’s work.”
“Sure, Dad, I understand,” came the cheerful response from a freckle-smattered face. “My new glove’ll bring me luck. Thanks a lot, Dad. This was the best birthday present ever.”
The man smiled. “You play your best, okay, and remember: Winning’s not everything. It’s the game that counts.
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