GoKawiilNature Futures publishes short story 'Becoming real' on decay and artificial life
The piece is a short science-fiction story in Nature Futures depicting a walled human village visited monthly by an unnervingly perfect artificial figure. The figure questions the old man and child about mortality, decay, and a dead knife-grinder, while the humans discuss rotting peaches and the meaning of impermanence. The story contrasts the artificial being's flawless, static existence with the lived, decaying world of the humans.