Fancy meeting you here.

I'm John W. Burge, a short story author and novelist in progress. I offer you a word of encouragement that is also incitement to rebellion:

Stay human.

Never before has there been such a perfect conflagration of forces designed to lure us into surrendering our creativity–our humanity–to a faceless machine.

Resist these forces. Stay human.

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For a treatise on what it means to stay human, read the essay on Substack. And I'd love to hear what you're doing in your own fight to stay human.

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