A human “doctor” must treat a very rare alien species using only AI assistance and translation machines. But the corporatization of medical technology and a history of genocide means nothing is as it seems.
Audio version on Spotify and Apple Podcasts. Here’s a thread where I talked a little about my thoughts behind the story. And here’s another thread. This story means a lot to me and contains many things I’ve spent hours thinking about, in bed when the state of the world keeps me up at night, in my dissertation as I grapple with what “knowing” even means, and for weeks at Clarion workshop as I wrote and sobbed in my dorm room trying to make it all come together. If you can only read one thing from me, please read this one!