The apartment hummed, a low, constant thrum from the server farm in the building’s core, a sound that used to be a comfort, a whisper of the digital ocean outside. Now, for Lena, it felt like the pulse of her own humiliation. Forty years. She’d navigated corporate skirmishes, outmaneuvred algorithmic shifts, and yet, here she…
Month: July 2025
Independence
“I’m a man”, thought Brett, “If I want to wear make-up then I can and nobody can stop me.” He planned ahead, badly. Foundation, lipstick, eyeliner, mascara and eye shadow. But the lipstick was bright red, not a good look with his skin tones. Even that was nothing compared to the eye shadow, a Prussian…