Insensate Incarnate
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Complete Wed, Jun 19, 201913m
In tomorrow's today, there is a place citizens can go to examine and refine their own memories at their own pleasure, and get paid to do so. There are no rules, and the limit is, quite literally, your imagination. The deceased can be raised from the dead; the living, lowered from life.
Sink into and enjoy Sal Critchowski's first publicly shared short story - an examination of cultural and societal issues, as well as a questioning as to how far technology should become apart of us, and how much the government should become a part of technology.
There are no limits here, in the world of the insensate incarnate. No limits on love, and an unstoppable future of pain.
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