My Battery Is Low and It Is Getting Dark

A military attack drone turned shepherd. A train on the London Underground evolving into something new and wondrous. A troupe of robotic actors struggling to find meaning when the audience has disappeared. Explore the myriad ideas of what happens when out-of-date and abandoned technologies are given a second life—one that takes them in a new direction, far outside their intended programming and beyond their original purpose.

MY BATTERY IS LOW AND IT IS GETTING DARK features fourteen stories of quiet hope, heartbreak, creation, and death from fantasy and science fiction authors Dana Berube, Merc Fenn Wolfmoor, Jacey Bedford, Anthony Lowe, Chris Kocher, Brian Hugenbruch, William Leisner, José Pablo Iriarte, Alethea Kontis, Kari Sperring, Edward Willett, John G. Hartness, Alexander Gideon, and Stephen Leigh. You may never look at your smart speaker the same way again.

Stories:
Ganbold and the Best Drone in Mongolia by Dana Berube
The Cold Red Dust by Merc Fenn Wolfmoor
Traveling Hopefully by Jacey Bedford
Ain’t Done Haunting by Anthony Lowe
The Circle by Chris Kocher
Foster-Child of Silence and Slow Time by Brian Hugenbruch
We Choose to Do These Things by William Leisener
Brewing Insurrection by José Pablo Iriarte
Sassi’s Last Ride by Althea Kontis
The Ghosts of Versailles by Kari Sperring
Beneath the Pall by Edward Willett
Sanctuary by John G. Hartness
Terra 3:56 by Alexander G.R. Gideon (credited as Alexander Gideon)
One Had a Lovely Face by Stephen Leigh