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What the Machine Knew

by Catherine Morrow

A grief-device builds each of them the neighbor they've been afraid to want. Then the neighbor actually knocks.


**11:47**

The device is still warm on the nightstand, which is how Maya knows last night wasn't a dream she can decide she didn't have.

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