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Kate Folk Reads “Out There”

The New Yorker: The Writer's Voice - New Fiction from The New Yorker

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The Blot Revolution

The blots were designed to perform caretaking jobs that necessitated a high level of ampathy. They would then dematerialize their corporeal presence, dissipating into a cloud of vapor. Blots began using dating aps to target vulnerable women. With the victim's data, they'd lavish a woman with praise, heavy food and good sex. And then in the middle of the night, they'd steal the data stored in her phone,. It took months to untangle steve's work. He sent personalized emales to everyone in her contacts, exploiting each scrap of information alicia had divulged in the weeks theyd dated. This was text book blot, a red flag.

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