Playdate: Life of Androids, #2

By Eva Holmquist

In the year 2250.

Lost, Wilma moves from the enclosed city to a sleepy residential area.

A fresh start! Nothing like the city. Nobody knows her painful past. No unbearable sympathy.

She hopes to forget. Instead, she meets her future. A future that sets her on a dangerous path.

Is she desperate enough to grab it?

 

In the near-future Life-of-Androids Universe, Playdate highlights a significant event in Wilma's life. An event that starts her on her path to becoming a woman of legend among humans and androids alike.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Eva Holmquist
• Release date: Dec 12, 2021
• ISBN: 9789188381514

Book preview

Playdate

Eva Holmquist

ISBN: 978-91-88381-51-4

Ordspira Förlag, 2021

© Eva Holmquist

Cover Art: SergeyNivens

PLAYDATE

Wilma stepped out from the quaint-looking apartment building, clad in blue running tights and a top. Her running shoes were the latest, hovering over the ground for maximum comfort. The air was chilly, with a sharp autumn bite to it. The smell of too-ripe prunes made her want to gag. In the city, there were no prunes, fresh or rotting.

The courtyard was surrounded by similar-looking apartment buildings to her own, two-storey red-brown brick buildings, with slanting red tile roof. In front of her, a couple of swings dangled in the wind. Grass grew in the sand beneath. No children played in the playground.

Stretching, and involuntarily scratching her hands against the rough red-brown brick building, she contemplated her recent move. It certainly wasn’t a straightforward choice, moving out into an apartment several hundred years old, in a sleepy residential area where she didn’t know anybody. At the same time, that was the charm, escaping all painful memories