Mother by Choice
A Stix story (S.T.R.I.X., Book 1)
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Mother by Choice
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Narrated by:
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Kim Rossi
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By:
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Troy Biffath
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Mother by Choice
A Stix Story
(S.T.R.I.X. Series)
Stix was not designed to be a parent.
She was not programmed for love, nor obligated by law or protocol to intervene.
When an infant’s life is placed in her care, Stix faces a decision no system can make for her.
Set within the wider universe of Heaven’s Protocol, Mother by Choice is an intimate science fiction short story that explores responsibility at its most personal scale. In a future governed by interstellar Gateways, planetary Protectors, and systems built to preserve humanity, this story focuses on a single, irreversible moment—where care becomes a choice rather than an assignment.
As an intelligence born from the Synthetic Thought & Responsibility Intelligence eXperiment (S.T.R.I.X.), Stix was created to reason where human judgment failed. What she discovers instead is that responsibility cannot be automated.
Quiet, restrained, and ethically charged, Mother by Choice asks what defines motherhood beyond biology, and whether moral agency can exist without instruction, permission, or reward.
This story stands alone, but serves as a character-driven entry point into the S.T.R.I.X. series, a subset of the larger Heaven’s Protocol universe.
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