This is really good! I didn’t notice the fiction tag at first and thought it was real until the VR stuff. I especially liked how sharp the ending was, like the narrator is so casual about it.
I noticed something was wrong when Kathleen was introduced in excruciating detail. True love is something no one actually brags about to third parties in that way. If real then it is too blessed/braggy to share, and if not real… well… fiction is a lie told for fun, basically, so such things can occur in fiction <3
With suspicion already raised, the double punch of “The Machine” and “Joseph Norck” caused me to google for someone named Norck involved in computer science, and no such professor exists.
This is really good! I didn’t notice the fiction tag at first and thought it was real until the VR stuff. I especially liked how sharp the ending was, like the narrator is so casual about it.
Same here. I guess we need to keep training our discriminators.
I noticed something was wrong when Kathleen was introduced in excruciating detail. True love is something no one actually brags about to third parties in that way. If real then it is too blessed/braggy to share, and if not real… well… fiction is a lie told for fun, basically, so such things can occur in fiction <3
With suspicion already raised, the double punch of “The Machine” and “Joseph Norck” caused me to google for someone named Norck involved in computer science, and no such professor exists.
Then I leaned back and enjoyed the story :-)