My short story, "Murgatroyd and the AI" is up at Reimagined AI. https://www.reimaginedai.org/stories
The story is reprinted from the “Heavens to Murgatroyd” anthology, Shawn Bird (ed.) Lintusen Press, March 2024.
The cover photo is Pepper, an actual emotional support robot from Aldebaran Robotics.
My review of Thomas Trofimuk's Saudade is available at the Ottawa Review of Books
I really, really liked this surreal, cinematic, mystery about the nature or memory and the need to attend to everything all the time because this moment is all we have.
I particularly liked the surprise ending, which I didn't see coming until the last few chapters. But then I forced the book on my daughter, who literally read only the first page before saying, "Does it end with ___". Yes, yes it did. So your mileage may vary re "surprise", but the writing here is quite exceptional, so still highly recommended.
