Rain
Although technically the second story I've submitted to a writing competition, this is the first I can publish as the results of the NYC midnight competition are still pending. I saw this last night and decided to enter very last minute, so it has very little refinement and is 99% the first draft I submitted last night. The competition is run by https://novelo.com/, and the prompt was to use to opening sentence The rain hasn't stopped since the machines took control.... The rain hasn't stopped since the machines took control... I think it was always inevitable. The hubris of humanity, our arrogance that we were always going to be the dominant species on the planet. The people in charge told us the machines were there to help us, to assist us, to make things easier. Then, they started taking the dangerous jobs, and people were happy, no longer were human lives at risk in dangerous situations. Then they took the easier jobs, no longer did humans need to perform menial ta...