The Echo of a Will
ShortStory 2,061 words Recommended by 2 award/anthology sources
"Zeke came home to find wires dangling from the ceiling over the dining table. His light-fixture repair, abandoned mid-process. It hadn’t seemed important earlier, but now he couldn’t bear it. It was like the heart was ripped out of the duplex. Theory of consciousness: I am conscious because I change my environment."
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