• Deebster
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    7 months ago

    The link includes the short story, so don’t read the AI summary in these comments since it’s mixed the article and the story!

  • AutoTL;DRB
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    -17 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    She is a Jack Whyte Storyteller’s Award winner and her writing has been shortlisted for the 2023 Federation of BC Writers Contest — Short Fiction.

    For the first few months we lived together I assumed this was some kind of hip millennial church, but it’s actually a members-only club where Clara serves ethically-sourced tequila to future white-collar criminals.

    The company was started by a venture capitalist who got all his money when his oil baron father fell off a roller coaster at Canada’s Wonderland.

    When I get home from work I do a guided meditation on my phone, eat the Green Goddess veggie bowl I meal prepped this weekend, and then retreat to my room to play violent video games.

    I’m like Jane Goodall, but instead of living with gorillas in Tanzania, I stare at a computer screen until the place behind my eyes throbs and my teeth ache.

    Maybe it’s because I’ve dodged her last eight calls, or because no matter how many Norwegian Sea Salt facials I book I still drift to sleep every night in between body-wracking sobs.


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