Hey y'all, LaVar here. This is my last season of LaVar Burton Reed and you are listening to one of the very final episodes.

And I want to celebrate the 13 amazing seasons of the podcast with you.

So find me on Instagram live on Monday, May 6th from 630.30 to 8 p.m. Pacific time. I'll be answering some questions, maybe one from you,

and I might have some guests pop in as well. Find me on Instagram at LaVard dot Burton hit follow and then

tune in on Monday, May 6th from 630 to 8 p.m. Pacific time to help me celebrate Laver Burton Reed and this is LeVar Burton reads. In every episode I handpick a different piece of short fiction and I read it to you.

The only thing these stories have in common is that I love them and I hope you will do.

You got the good guys, the bad guys, you got heroes, you got villains.

Sometimes the story makes it pretty clear who's who and sometimes the story doesn't.

In today's story, there... Sometimes the story doesn't.

In today's story, there are a lot of muddied waters.

We don't know who we should be rooting for, really.

We don't even know who's robot and who's human or what kind of conflict is going on exactly

We zoom in on one being eking out a living taking pride in the work she does every day. She's an exceptional tradesperson.

Someone who specializes in creating quick machines tailored to very specific purposes.

If you've got the coin, Hex. tailored to very specific purposes.

If you've got the coin,

Hex can build you what you need in her workshop,

and probably in less than an hour or two.

And we, the readers, or listeners, are sequestered in that workshop with her,

given only enough details to get by.

This was a really fun read by the author Lindsay Menusos and it was first published in the

anthology Robotic Ambitions, Tales of Mechanical Sentience.

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