(emet)
Novelette 7,653 words Recommended by 6 award/anthology sources
"WHEN PROTESTERS TAKE out the power at her Silicon Valley office, Chaya is at home, watching a golem pull dandelions. ... She lays her golem gently down by the riverside. A single tap on her phone activates the preprogrammed subroutine that wipes the alef from its forehead, leaving only the letters mem and tav— every instance in its code of emet, truth, becomes met, death."
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