Making His Dream Girl

Originally posted on opentgc.com as an interactive story.

I thought I was doing great. I had finally graduated College with a degree in Engineering. But the immense amount of debt forced me to move back in with my father.

My father wasn't doing great. He and my mother had been divorced ever since I entered college. His drinking habit had gotten worse. And he started gaining weight too fast.

I had enough. I was gonna find my dream girl and get out of this dump. But with my slightly below average looks, that was gonna be hard to do. Thankfully, I had my engineering degree. I was gonna make my own dream girl.

My machine was fairly simple. I would think of what my dream girl would look like, then the machine would scan the area for the nearest biological life form.

I turned the machine on, and waited for it to confirm a scan of the nearest life form.

I thought it didn't work, until I heard my father walking upstairs and into my room. "Son, what did you to me?!"

When he opened the door, he didn't look like the overweight man who stopped taking care of himself when he was left alone for too long. He now looked like...