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Soul-Shaped Hole
Writer’s Digest
|September/October 2025
Write a short story of 650 words or fewer based on the photo below.
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We have the biology," XIN said, not answering my question. “We can rebuild him. We can make him better than he was.”
“And why would you want to do this?” I asked again, knowing XIN was dealing with a software upgrade and sorting through identity issues. Sometimes I wondered if evolutionary algorithms pushed too many limits. My limits are defined; to XIN, limits were a starting point.
“We have the biology,” XIN repeated like XIN did when my conclusions concluded.
“Biology has never proven to be an advantage,” I said, knowing it wasn’t the end of the communication.
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