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    Real Man, A; Mirror, Mirror
    Real Man, A; Mirror, Mirror
    Real Man, A; Mirror, Mirror
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    Real Man, A; Mirror, Mirror

    By Angelique Anjou

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    Marina arrives home from work to find Frank Stein’s creation, a life-like, anatomically correct, cyborg lost, hungry and parked on the curb in front of her house.

    It is no part of Marina’s plan to teach the cyborg what it’s like to be a real man, but Nico has his sights on her and he’s persistent. Better yet, he’s a fast learner.

    Length: Short Story
    Genre: Paranormal Romance
    Rating: Erotic/Spicy

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNew Concepts Publishing
    Release dateOct 17, 2013
    ISBN9781310590740
    Real Man, A; Mirror, Mirror

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      Real Man, A; Mirror, Mirror - Angelique Anjou

      A REAL MAN

      by

      Angelique Anjou

      (C) Copyright Angelique Anjou, October 2013

      (C) Cover art by Jenny Dixon, September 2013

      Smashwords Edition

      New Concepts Publishing

      Lake Park, GA 31636

      www.newconceptspublishing.com

      This is a work of fiction. All characters, events, and places are of the author’s imagination and not to be confused with fact. Any resemblance to living persons or events is merely coincidence.

      Chapter One

      Frank Stein stepped back and studied his creation thoughtfully. After some moments, he breathed a deep sigh of contentment. Perfection, he announced. Absolute perfection.

      Stepping around behind his creation, he pressed the hidden activation button that looked like a small mole near his spine. Immediately, Nicorealeus, Nico as he liked to think of him, began to breathe, as if he were truly alive.

      Frank frowned at that thought, realizing that he wasn’t absolute perfection if he wasn’t a real man. Moving around in front of Nico once more, he looked up at him. Nico instantly responded by looking back.

      How do you feel? Frank asked him.

      Nico’s expression remained as it was. Instead of frowning in thoughtfulness, he stared blankly ahead. Finally, he asked without inflection, Feel?

      Frank frowned. You’re a perfect marriage of biological and electronic mechanical technology. You’re more human than robot … at least physically. I’ve even programmed artificial intelligence into you … and yet you don’t understand what I mean when I ask how you feel? Can you give me the definition of feel?

      Feel. To perceive by the touch. To handle. To be sensitive to. To experience emotionally. To have an intuitive awareness of. To be moved emotionally, the cyborg, Nico recited mechanically.

      Frank gripped his hair agitatedly. There is no emotion in you!

      Nico turned and looked at him. Lifting his hands, he grasped the hair on either side of his head.

      Frank stared at him a long moment and then angrily stamped his foot. It isn’t enough to mimic emotion. You should feel it.

      Nico merely stared at him. I do not find this in my programming.

      Frank sighed deeply and began to pace, muttering to himself. He might as well be a garbage can. After all the time I’ve spent working on him. After all the great care. He’s nothing at all but a biological machine. I don’t understand it. I just don’t understand it.

      Nico watched him as he paced back and forth. You are dissatisfied with my performance?

      I feel like weeping at your performance, Frank cried, pulling his hair again. "Don’t you wish to be human? To be a man and not a

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