Adversarial Metanoia

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February 2025

Delivery System
By action or inaction most things in his world were trying to kill him.
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Marcelo Rinesi
Nightmare Blueprints
The Colonel had earned his rank by having people train computers with the sanitized half-truths of a thousand atrocities so they could weave with…
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On Silence
Maybe there is a Great Filter.
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Mandelbrot City Fragment
Other than existing entirely in halfgray tones never quite reaching black or white — those absolutes approached the closest by the shimmering black disk…
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Marcelo Rinesi

January 2025

Evidence of a Crime
I wrote this story for Strange Horizons' Stop Surveillance Copaganda contest associated with RightsCon25. It didn't get selected, but I'm still happy…
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Pastoral
With brittle pride they went to the brain-scarring scanners and the post harvesters, the few who still held the brief faith of the Upload Rapture: to…
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Confession
At seemingly random intervals — but Jean knows they are not, with the prey's grasp of the grammar of the hunt — something switches on inside her brain.
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Scattershot Prayer
Only cranks look for angels now; not long ago it seemed as if everybody did.
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Place Settings
Tony decided to kill his little brother the day he found out their mother would only be able to afford empathy overlays for one of them.
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December 2024

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