The Mechanical Flying Monster

[Finalist in the #CreatureFeature Science Fiction Challenge!]

-

Emails coming in from an old, 2016 computer (one that dates back more than a few decades) from a long-lost scientist that went missing just after an experiment gone wrong bring odd suspicions to a young college girl's mind as she reads and digs up secret after secret about this supposedly escaped 'mechanical flying man'. They suggest a hidden, covered-up experiment that the government and a now-abandoned research facility tried to keep classified.

She thinks it's only research, but what happens when the rumors turn out to be true?

And that it appears directly in her patio?

---

Written for the Science Fiction Contests