Publisher's Synopsis
"After Dinner Conversation" Magazine - June 2022
- The Money Box: A mysterious black box gives its users "unearned" money, but at what price?
- The Memory Thief: Alice is kidnapped, her mind is downloaded to the cloud, and, due to space limitations, her boyfriend must decide what memories make it into her new body.
- Tikkun Olam: A retired lawyer tries to help an at-risk youth, but feels she has failed him.
- Sow: A pilot is tasked with "seeding" a distant planet with the codes to give rise to future humans, at the expense of the planet's natural evolutionary process.
- A Dragon's Perspective: A renowned dragon slayer agrees to a conversation with the enemy, before they engage in mortal combat.
- Mayonnaise: The inventor of million dollar "zero fat, zero calorie" food additive discovers her invention is killing her son.
- The One That Damned Me: A high school counselor's life is ruined when he is wrongly accused by a cocaine snorting student.
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