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Submitted to Contest #188
I asked my AI Ghostwriter to write the book my AI Outliner had drafted from my dreams. It took thirty minutes, which cut things close. I had an appointment with the AI Beta Reader Collective. (The online service is always in high demand, but I don’t have the hosting budget to keep a team of critics on my server.) I managed to submit the first draft in time. They didn’t like it, complaining that to plot was rote and the characters unrelatable. I almost decided to call it quits and start over. I’ve never been very good at taking criticism, b...
Submitted to Contest #124
The patter of heavy little feet thumped across the wooden deck. Amy Jo watched her son duck around the porch corner behind her gas grill. Peeking his head out he stared at his mother, then down the short sidewalk. “Conner, what are you doing?” His head retracted like a turtle behind the black metal grill shell. “I’m hiding from the Nowhere man.” The empty lower half of the grill exposed the bottom half of his purple t-shirt, all of his shorts, and the tops of his shins. Amy Jo turned to the young blond man who tottered awkwardly one...
Submitted to Contest #123
There she was. From center stage--defying all logic and harsh lighting--Shawn could see her, poised on the back of a theater seat mid-audience. She was small, stood stock still, and brilliantly blue. No one else seemed to notice her: not his fellow performers, not the lighting or stage crew, and not even the bald man who sat in the seat on which she stood. Then even Shawn couldn't see her anymore. She was there, then she was gone. "Modnar si lla." The director’s voice echoed from the speakers in the back, booming through the room. The smal...
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