Audio excerpt from Nightmare in Silicon, a novel from Chiasmus Press.

The book: A woman diagnosed with a life-threatening illness takes sanctuary in the gender-neutral body of a robot. Her one symptom now - she can't dream.

The scene: Ymo pays a visit to her old self.

[Music composed by Laugan Evil]


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Note: This reading makes use of gender-neutral pronouns, which may include zie, zir, zirs, or zirself.



"If zie'd been doing this to herself when she'd been alive, zie would have been killing herself..."



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