Season 2, Bonus Episode 8: Generational

This is Drabbletober, the podcast of tiny fiction.Hello, and welcome to Drabbletober. This is an occasional bonus episode, for the first of June, 2026. I'm Elizabeth Guilt.Your one-hundred word story for the day is: Generational---She looked at me, disappointed."Don't you want to?""Of course I do! But... I need permission.""From who? You're an adult!""The Paterfamilias.""Ha, the Paterf... wait, you're serious? You still have one?"My great-great-grandfather wanted his dynasty to last forever. During that narrow window in the mid twenty-first century, when everyone thought they knew the future, he set up complicated deeds and entails. And he did it well. It's completely watertight - we still haven't found a legal route to unplugging the damned thing."So, yeah. If we want to get married, we've got to convince a century-old AI."---As I'm sure you'll have noticed, AI is currently the answer to everything. I do wonder which particular aspects future generations will look back on and groan at our stupidity.---Take care, everyone, and I'll see you again sometime.https://www.elizabethguilt.com/drabbletober/s2-jun1-bonus