072 (Part 2 of the Miles Puts Magnetic LEDs on Things to Make Imagining that They are Robots Easier for Him Series)

You can dress them up with glowing eyes and you can put a pillow over your head to try to drown out the noise they make, but you can't successfully fight the perpetual terror that is life with a radiator. What's even more awful, I guess, is the prospect of a day with a high of 10 (this coming Friday) and only radiators to keep you alive through it all.

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By Mo Martin

It accordioned through the sewers, a caterpillar of iron and rubber. It believed in steam, and in blood. It's glowing eyes fell hungrily on the rats and debris of its world. One day, it found a ladder it could crawl up, but in the opening above, the eerie light of its eyes were overwhelmed by sunlight. Even the twinkling coldness of the stars and moon it found unbearable. But it waited, and there came a cloud night with no stars, and no moon. And it climbed.