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Ghost in the Tank

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The first time you killed me, I cried like a baby. Stupid, stupid, to cry over something make-believe—stupid and ugly and pathetic, too, when already the only thing I wanted in the world was for you to find me pretty. I couldn’t help it. I hadn’t expected it to hurt so bad, dying in the sim. I hadn’t expected it to hurt at all.

DystopiaCorporate PowerBleak

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Second PersonDreadVisceralQueer IdentityFragmentedBodily AutonomyTraumaDarkIntimateUrbanMemoryNear FutureSocial SFVoice DrivenScience Fiction

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