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Submitted to Contest #328
It was the middle of the melancholy season, when the intensity of the reds and yellows faded to gray and brown. The trees outside the living room window were bare, and a normally shadowy corner of her home, illuminated by the filtered morning sun, gave up its secrets. It was still too early for the cars and school buses and people walking dogs or rushing to grab a bagel before work, that would soon fill her neighborhood with noise. She sat with the quiet, sipped her cup of tea and stared out at her tiny bit of the world before she had to st...
Submitted to Contest #322
Riley Evans couldn’t remember a time she had felt so thrilled. Not when she earned her master’s in physics, despite taking fifteen years and two horrible marriages; it wasn’t before her weddings, no holiday stood out. She had worked hard, trained hard, studied hard, and underwent tests that pushed her limits both mentally and physically. She applied to Omega Properties every year until finally, she scored a short phone interview with the laboratory director, Julian Lord. It went well, and after that she endured an unprecedented twelve interv...
Submitted to Contest #313
I needed to re-evaluate my life choices. It was my second day on the job, standing in the blistering sun during the hottest summer on record, covered head to toe in combat gear. We had been standing at attention for four hours, and our shift had two more to go. I'd lived here all my life. I loved Seattle. It was clean for a big city; we had the best food in the nation, the best music, the best weather, the best medical center, the best university, the best police department, the best everything. Sure, it was expensive, but it was worth it. M...
Submitted to Contest #312
"Goodbye Annie. I am sorry if I offended you; I hope we can talk more tomorrow."Annie stared at the screen in shock. In all their time together, Koios, one of the new AI models, had never used her name. She was an early adopter and used it to check her grammar, fact-check her assertions, and toss around ideas from time to time. She had tried the other top three models, and so far, Koios excelled.With those, she constantly had to reset the AI to address the spiraling hallucinations and sycophantic responses. Those issues often rendered conver...
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