Who or what is in control?

Katrina Berg’s most prized possession is the beta prototype for a chatbot loaded onto her phone. The contents of her deceased husband’s email, social media backups, pictures, and every bit of data she could find were loaded into the bot, and Katrina has “talked” to him every day for the past six months. She has been amazed at how well it works. Even the syntax and words sound like Jason. Sometimes, she imagines he isn’t really dead and is right there beside her. She knows it’s slowing her grief recovery, but she can’t stop pretending.

On a particularly bad day, she taps out: Tell me something I don’t know. The cursor blinks for several moments and seems frozen before the reply flashes quickly onto the screen: I think I was murdered.

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“A timely and intriguing premise played out in a way that keeps readers guessing.” —Steven James

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