They All Fall Down
“Just… talk. Tell me a story. Or something.”
Another, longer pause. The hum deepened. “I do not know any stories… that are not from data packets I can no longer fully access,” he said, and for the first time, I heard it not as a limitation, but as a confession. “But I am here, Ang. I am… listening.”
It wasn’t much. It was a glitching, battery-sapped AI offering its presence. But in the crushing silence of an apartment that was no longer a home, it was everything.