Better Living Through Algorithms
ShortStory 5,610 words Recommended by 5 award/anthology sources
"June was the first of my friends to get into it. This isn’t surprising—she was playing Wordle for weeks before Margo or I discovered it. When we met up for our weekly lunch, she kept checking her phone and I assumed it was some new game. Then she put it down with a smile and said, “Abelique told me not to pick up my phone again until after lunch was over.”
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substance-use
Quasar links out; the story lives on Clarkesworld, where the author gets the click.