It is the dawn of the sentient machines' era, and the new economy has created an under-class of sentient workers that have taken over the unspecialized jobs, redefining the meaning of being unemployed.

This new material abundance available to some was possible after the creation of the sentient processor, artificial brains trained with neural patterns scanned from human beings, skilled manual workers, whose skills built the baseline for training the early sentients.

While waiting to take his flight home, Gustavo, a hostile and lonely man, remembers the events that preceded his father’s unwilling contribution to the creation of the first sentient brain four decades earlier. Events that changed the course of Gustavo and his family life.

“SOUL HAS WEIGHT, PHYSICIAN THINKS,” The New Your Times, March 11, 1907.

“Unexplained Weight Gain Transients at the Moment of Death,” Lewis E. Hollander, Jr, Journal of Scientific Exploration, 2001.