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Submitted to Contest #273
Today is launch day. The office is abuzz as OpaqueAI prepares to launch its newest machine learning model, AGI2. All the remote software developers were called from their home battle stations to their office cubicles, like men being torn from their wives for war. Like the drums of war, the sound of mechanical keyboards roared across the office. The top executives crammed themselves into a meeting room, discussing potential hitches like generals poring over a battle map. During this time, John was scrolling TikTok on his phone while taki...
Submitted to Contest #272
Trigger Warning:This story contains themes of violence, mental health struggles, and animal harm, which may be distressing to some readers. Discretion is advised. With every passing second, life leaves behind a shadow of someone I despise. Yet I know—I do not hate myself. I cannot hate the self that exists now, for we are bound by the same loathing for who I once was. Is this the way of existence? For the present to scorn the past, while treading warily into the uncertain future? Yet here I am, curled beneath the bed, hiding from my m...
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