Probability: Resolve — Robert J. McCarter

Can an android feel fear? 

A prototype, the only one of her kind, Nan must fight for her very existence. In a future New York City, she did what any Nanny would do to protect her charge and someone died. To survive, she must defend her actions and her programming. Will it be enough? 

In the spirit of Asimov comes a story about an android told in her own words. 

This is a novelette (approximately 9,000 words or 40 pages long long).