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Feeling the warmth of the stove with her hands, her gaze lifted. In front of her, a landscape of grey mountains with millions of tiny concrete capsules filled her coffee-colored eyes. As she looked at them, memories of a time when mountains were full of organic life came to her mind. With her right hand, she grabbed the handle of a small pan, lowered her gaze to place it on the stove, and then spoke in a slightly robotic voice the words she had been repeating for a century: “Ok, Ziliki, cook meal two one zero....

When I look at myself in the mirror, the first thing that I notice is my hair. Today, it’s full of waves everywhere, with the characteristic frizz of day’s end. I see a wave above my temple—the rebellious one—the one that can’t decide if it’s straight or wavy. I see hair that has been my therapy, the one I once tried to tame with every straightener or chemical that came my way....

As I consider the shift towards creative writing in my journey, I can’t help but wonder: In my mind, are there many voices or just one? Is it that the voice in this writing is a mix of my experiences combined with AI software that suggests better words, or is it only the AI that takes my badly written input and the millions of data points that were trained on to generate a decent text?...

Have you ever experienced the feeling of achievement, relief, and confidence after you overcame something pretty difficult; maybe you pass a final test, maybe you graduated after working night shifts at a restaurant, maybe you lost someone very important but somehow kept living, or simply, one day you decided to go out for a walk around the block after being at home for few weeks. I certainly have experienced it, and I always associated it with doing hard things in life....

Have you ever had a dream that just sticks with you, year after year, for decades even? Those dreams that seem almost “unreasonable” or unrealistic? I’ve had a dream of that kind. It was about a city known everywhere as the city of love. Can you guess? If you’re thinking of Paris, you’re correct! For a very long time, my dream was to travel to Paris, sit under the towering Eiffel Tower, and sip a cup of black coffee....