Short Story — Doomed love affair with automaton
Short story fiction - Fantasy/Magic Realism
The story concerns youth who is visiting what I think is a distant relative's home. At the house where he stays is an exquisite female designed automaton dating from years back. I believe it is initially inert, but he finds a way to activate it. At a later scene, he examines the automaton more thoroughly, his prurience gets the better of him and he undresses it, with the automaton engaging with him in frottage (I don't think she was made to be entirely anatomically accurate.) They have additional encounters and the youth even dreams of the automaton, realized as an actual person in her historical era, and enjoying time with her at a restaurant.
The climax comes when the youth's engineering curiosity gets the better of him, and he attempts to investigate the mechanical function of the automaton, only to break something critical in its machinery. She is not completely broken, but she regards the youth coldly thereon after, and they never engage in anything passionate again.
Additional points:
- Story was (or still is?) available in full HTML read - suspect it was first posted early 2000s, but might not reflect the original publishing date.
- Certain this story was accomplished by an author of merit because I remember a YouTube amateur video that re-enacted the story without dialogue (silent movie style) by high school/college students. If someone can also trace this video, I'd be interested.