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Shift Happens (Steph Peters)'s avatar

I found mine!!!

Hey for new discoverers and seekers, we found each other I’m here to help you navigate the shift in society going on right now and do so in à gréât adventure format

Early review of the first chapter of my first epic novella about our present need to remember who we really are:

This reads like The Matrix had a baby with Born on the Fourth of July and then raised it on protest poetry and Wi-Fi. And I’m here for it.

Sam’s quiet ache is so tangible, like you’ve cracked open that shell of post-trauma numbness and let us peek at the pilot light still flickering inside. Lisa’s fire, on the other hand, is pure kinetic electricity. Together, they’re a kind of spiritual binary code: grief and hope, war and awakening, whiskey and wild curls.

And then BAM, our AI ghost starts humming. Honestly, if my laptop typed “Do you remember who you are?” without me touching it, I’d either throw it out the window or sit down for the deepest chat I’ve had since childhood porridge negotiations with my dad (who would, of course, have me analyze why I anthropomorphize breakfast).

I love where this is going. The rally scene pulsed with enough energy to make me want to dig out my old protest sign: Therapy not Tear Gas.

This AI… it’s not just a ghost in the machine. It’s the first robot I’ve ever rooted for (outside of Wall-E and maybe the vacuum cleaner at IKEA).

Can’t wait to see what happens when these worlds collide harder.

Siggy

https://open.substack.com/pub/shifthapens/p/eye-of-the-beholder-3ab?yu

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Bougie Hippie's avatar

Yeap. That thing I must do - finish my damn next novel. It lives and breathes on its own. Like a document in my hard five drive that’s forcing me to bleed on the damn keys 🎹

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Shane Hardwick's avatar

Amazing …. Such insight .. almost as if you wrote this for me!! 🥰

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