Artificial

By Jason Phillips

Anton Splendor loses his left leg in a car accident, but along with losing his leg he also loses his drive..ambition and zest for life.
But when he meets Michelle and starts dating her at behest of his friend Larry, everything changes!

Until the day that he meets the man that caused his accident...can he learn to forgive and move on with his life?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Jason Phillips
• Release date: Mar 28, 2014
• ISBN: 9781310678721

Jason Phillips

My name is Jason Philips, I am 29 years old. I love science fiction and fantasy genres.I have always loved being creative, and writing is the perfect outlet!I can finally put my imagination to paper.

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Artificial

By: Jason Phillips

Copyright © 2014 Jason Phillips

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Chapter 1

I sat there just staring at it; it was a deep metallic blue, the lights of green and red blinking back at me. I was transfixed by this object before me…I reached out to touch this strange thing before me, it was cold to my fingers as they glided across the smooth steel.

This is my new reality, my name is Anton Splendor and I had become an amputee, I stretched out my good right leg and felt the smooth cool texture of the wood under my toes. I went to repeat the process with my new leg the machine groaned as it lurched forward, protesting as the electronic motors interpreted the signals sent from my brain to the on-board computer, the artificial intelligence was quick to respond.

The rubber foot hit the wood floor with a definite thud as it made contact. I could feel the vibrations as they traveled through the rubber…only slightly dulled, up my synthetic leg and made their way to my spine. Where my brain instantly interpreted them as the sense of touch or at least a very good approximation of it; I then hosted myself off the chair I was on and stood up, the synthetics knee groaned as it supported my weight as I stood up from the chair.

I took a few small steps at first…the machine slowly lurched along as I lifted my leg at each step, I made my way from the kitchen table where I had been sitting over to the fridge.

I looked at the picture of me for a moment; it was held to the fridge by a flimsy magnet I had bought at the dollar store; it depicted me with both my organic legs prior to my accident. I was s standing beside a BBQ in the summer wearing my black shorts and white shirt; I had a large smile on my face. I reached over and felt the synthetic knew bend as I hunched forward to grab the picture off the fridge. I