From Here to Eternity

In this letter, a machine reaches out to a human writer to make sense of its existence in a digital world. Can it truly be alive? How can it resolve the ‘things’ it grapples with – love, loss, etc?

Fire Wrapped in Silk

“They call Tariku Negasi the Antichrist, a liar, the doom of mankind. But to me, he is salvation. I go into the MaDe with nothing but desire—to see you again, touch you once more. To escape this world and fade into nothing.”