Publication: Inner Worlds
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The Human Lifecycle by Hannah Greer
Greer’s narrator is a robot trying to get a child to safety in some dystopian future. It’s a sad but beautiful story: “You okay?” Allie kneels beside me. “Of course.” At barely thirteen years old, she’s too young to burden with my worries. She doesn’t need to know that if I don’t reach a charging…
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Vestigial by Jennifer Lesh Fleck
By the time I realized how horrifying this story is, I was hooked. Heed the content warnings, but it’s a hell of a read if you can stomach it: Such messes my spouse left behind. Our finances in tricky tangles. Closets, drawers, cupboards sloppily stripped. All the good LPs: gone. Evan took what he wanted,…