Robots Love Techno

By Hawk and Young

Jude denounces friendship when his best friend ditches him for a new gang of boys. Playing by himself, he discovers strange things happen near an empty lot on Melpomene Street, items disappear, holes fill in, and the fence remains in perfect repair. When he asks people, no one can remember anything about the place and it does not appear on any maps. Undaunted, he researches the location, making the acquaintance of the only person who seems to also acknowledge its existence. His research is interrupted by the social necessities of a school dance, in which he somehow ends up going with the hottest girl in school. As both parts of his life collide, his research and his dance partner, Jude believes he is at odds with the Universe itself. Perhaps the Universe has more in store for Jude than he can fathom.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Hawk and Young
• Release date: Jun 17, 2018
• ISBN: 9780463713518

Hawk and Young

We are two authors, joined by a single mission - to bring you epic tales of young heroes up against insurmountable odds, but with nerve, nudges by friends and foes, by accident, or by sheer dumb luck, they prevail.We are building a compendium of short stories across time and space all based in one 'world' from a galaxy far far away that keeps interfering with ours. Why can't they leave us alone, huh? :)To learn more about us, visit our website. http://hawkandyoung.com

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Hawk and Young

Robots Love Techno

Like aliens, friendship does exist, no matter how hard you deny its existence

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Copyright 2017 by Hawk and Young

Robots Love Techno

By Eddie Joe Young and Elsha Hawk

The vacant lot on Melpomene Street appeared at first glance like a perfectly normal piece of real estate. One quarter of a city block long, surrounded by a privacy fence; nothing about it looked insidious or injurious. The grass was always neat even though no one was ever seen cutting it. The boards were always maintained even though no one was ever seen replacing them. The only person who seemed to find anything amiss was Jude Cumberland.

Jude was short on friends. As a matter of fact, the only friend Jude had ever had, besides his nemesis Agnes Mckinney, was George Rothering. George and Jude hadn’t been so much friends as they had been united in their friendlessness. Their mothers met every Wednesday afternoon to test their Bridge skills against other members of their Bridge Club. Even though no oaths had been taken, nor commitments made, Jude felt like they were in a friendless nerd secret society. Until he was betrayed.

Evidently, George’s Mom wasn’t content with her son being a reclusive outcast. The first day of summer before middle school she pushed George out of the nest saying he was not to return home between the hours of 8AM and 2PM all summer. That first day he met 3 boys who might not have earned the title of hoodlum, but were well on their way to urchin. George had befriended these street kids and while swinging on some kind of homemade catapult, had broken his leg.

When Jude made his weekly pilgrimage to George’s house he was expecting to console the convalescing kid. Imagine his shock when he saw that George had done the one thing that could possibly exclude him from the Federation of the Friendless; he had acquired friends. Not