"Tantie Merle and the Farmhand 4200" is a 2023 science fiction short story by Trinidadian author R. S. A. Garcia.
It was first published in Uncanny Magazine.
An elderly Trinidadian woman is given a robotic farmhand made of nanotechnology, with unexpected results — including that it is repeatedly eaten by her goat.
"Tantie Merle and the Farmhand 4200" won the Nebula Award for Best Short Story of 2023[1] and the 2024 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award.
[2] Garcia has described the story as having been inspired by an online conversation about how goats will eat anything.