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This is our last story for the month.

Issue 187.

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So our last story is titled the Carrie Android.

Zoe and a small flame and it's by Parker Ragland.

Parker Ragland, who can be found at parkeragland.com,

is a writer who spends most days trying to convince people that artificial intelligence

isn't that scary.

Contrary to what some of his fiction might suggest,

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