Box of Delights
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A futuristic photo-story from Janus 161 The box arrived at the Old Hall that afternoon. It had been shipped by RoboBabe TM Industries of California and took two men to unload and unpack it. Unable to resist the improbable sales blurb, Royston Arnold had ordered a prototype model of the thing it contained while on his travels to the USA. Fantastic new state-of-the-art life-size girl doll, the makers had boasted. RoboBabe TM is your playmate or bedmate for life. Never grows old. Walks but doesn’t talk. Beautiful, nubile, realistic in every conceivable way. Will obey your every wish or whim and never answer back. Specify body type and colouring required. In the appropriate box he had ticked Caucasian, blonde and statuesque, sent in the order then thought no more about it. That had been months ago. Royston hadn’t believed it could possibly live up to its claims, and now it was here he felt apprehensive about even l...