Perfect Companion

audiobook

Perfect Companion

by John McGreevey

EN·~24 minutes·1 chapter

Chapters

1 total

24:28

Description

In a stark laboratory, a brilliant but emotionally detached researcher has just brought a small, metallic creature to life. He names it Ohm, hoping it will be the flawless partner he can control without the mess of human feelings. As he turns his back on his estranged wife, their final confrontation crackles with bitter accusations and a desperate plea for connection.

The story explores the unsettling line between scientific curiosity and cruelty, asking whether an artificial mind can truly replace the messiness of a real relationship. It delves into the loneliness of a man who prefers circuitry to emotion, while his partner wrestles with the realization that love may have been reduced to an experiment. Listeners are drawn into a tense, thought‑provoking drama that questions what it means to be a companion and whether humanity can ever be engineered.

Collections

Browse all

Details

Language

en

Duration

~24 minutes (23K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Credits

Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net

Release date

2021-04-30

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

About the author

John McGreevey

John McGreevey

1922–2010

A prolific American television writer, he helped shape some of the most memorable family dramas of the 1950s through the 1980s. He is especially remembered for his Emmy-winning work on The Waltons and for a career that stretched across hundreds of scripts.

View all books

You may also like