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In the year 2033, a reviewer for a novel written by an algorithmic recreation of Isaac Asimov’s brain believes the work acts as a reverse Turing Test, prodding the self-consciousness of its human readers through its unorthodox construction. According to a think piece written by a fictitious reviewer in the year 2033, a novel written by a simulation of Isaac Asimov's brain is capable of interrogating humans about their own self-consciousness.
In Michigan, a recently divorced professor reflects on what it means to exist, first alone in his empty apartment and then alongside his student in a mission to find a missing girl.
A woman has an affair with a female lover who works in retouching models and imagines retouching the woman's face and body. The lover carries multiple selves inside of her, one of them a muscular, furry, aggressive man whose body hers (the lover's) sometimes resembles in bed.
A man thinks about his relationship with his parents (especially his mother) as he watches them grow old. He then realizes that he is now old too.
After kicking her husband out and changing the locks, a mother imagines he is still living with her, distant and uninterested in sex. Lying in bed, she conjures up old memories and imagines new ones, grappling with questions of selfhood, identity, womanhood, and motherhood. One night, her real husband returns, and she lets him back in.
When her husband leaves, a divorced woman finds comfort in her home with another version of herself.
A young being describes coming of age on their planet. Though they spend most of their time without gender, when it comes time to get physically intimate, they meet at a kemmer-house for a short duration, as either female or male.
A patient attends regular sessions with his psychiatrist but stubbornly refuses to tell the doctor his true thoughts.
A story with an unconventional structure that asks "What is your number one priority?"
A man who unknowingly talks to himself wonders why a woman who is satisfied with her marriage is having an affair with him.