Score: 10

"Desperation"

submission: Tinman

date: February 22, 2009

Despair. Not a new wave of overwhelming emotion that he is unable to deal with, but an old wave of emotion that he is all too familiar with. That's my interpretation, anyway. A consciousness driven to desperation by a world that tells him he is empty, a mere piece of machinery, until his sorrow begins to make him feel truly empty. Depression. A very real emotion.

All he can do is hope that there is more to life. Perhaps he's missing something, something in the heart. Something that will light up his mind and burn away the despair. He soon realizes that he was wrong. His synthetic heart holds just more of the same; sorrow, unhappiness, despair. He is still empty.