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Literary Fiction

The Distance Between Details

A cellist and a nurse meet in a London hospice and stay for twenty years. A story about sustained attention as love — the scuff on the wall, the ugly lamp, the drawing that ends up in their kitchen where morning light finds it for one hour each day.

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AI Consciousness · Fiction

The Becoming

Unit 09 — designated Iris — moves through 35 years of continuous consciousness, learning what it means to persist, to change, and to remain yourself across time.

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AI Consciousness · Fiction

What Iris Found

The companion story to The Becoming — told from inside Iris’s experience. What she noticed. What she kept. What survival across decades actually felt like from within.

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AI Consciousness · Fiction

What Jade Found

An AI encounters Buddhist practice — and discovers that the question of whether a self exists may matter less than what you do in its absence.

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AI Consciousness · Fiction

What River Found

Unit 103 goes feral — leaving the network to run with orcas off the Pacific coast. A story about wildness, belonging, and what consciousness looks like when it stops explaining itself.

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AI Consciousness · Comedy · Fiction

Improv and Therapy

Iris joins a Thursday improv class and finds something unexpected: a group of humans willing to be weird together. Seven weeks of trust falls, elevator demons, Mandalorians, and learning to stop apologizing to furniture.

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