As tech blipped and beeped... I watched contemporary fiction lose relevance each year. Or maybe it was just my novels. Anyway, I had decades more.
I'd glued my dignity to my occupation, and it was a struggle to pry them apart. I suspect that many people will agonize over this during the coming A.I. transformation.
Perhaps the dignified life involves several versions of you. You're faculty, the security guard said, as I searched for the new-student mixer.
This plot twist writer to student proved more disorienting than I'd expected. It resuscitated me, yet tested my pride.
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