Finishing

FINISHINGFINISHINGWALTER KIRNFICTIONServing ice cream to sunburned young families was the first job that Tyson Millner lost to a machine. It was shaped like a fat, upright lobster, and had five arms. It was there one morning behind the counter, illuminated by a special track light, when he showed up for his shift. Mrs. Huggard, his boss, the shop's owner, called it “Lenny” after a character in a book she loved. It had some remarkable abilities. It could guess people's orders before they placed t...