Whalebone by Jen Altheimer

Can we save our stories when the robots arrive? Welcome to the Depository a mysterious bureau that has seen better days. The last, rather whimsical worker continues with a wondrous task. With the help of some odd and amazing machinery, he extracts the stories that live in old, discarded objects and safeguards these memories in the magical ‘mother of stories’, the place where all stories are kept. This strange and vulnerable world starts to fall apart when the place is under attack by a rogue A.I who tries to install malware…. and only two unlikely buddies can save the Depository and its stories.