Mirrored Out: A Contemporary Fiction Collection on Technology, Estrangement, and What Makes Us Human these Days. 13 Short Stories on Modern Life and t

A file that rewrites itself to know you better than you do. A phone that syncs with a stranger's notifications. A room that shrinks every time you step inside. An employment contract that outsources your friendships, your love life, your parents. In Mirrored Out, the familiar textures of modern life turn strange. The read receipts, the filters, the algorithms, the endless scroll: thirteen short stories take what we've stopped noticing and hold it up to the light, revealing what's happened to the way we live, love, and connect. Some bend reality. Others never leave it. All of them stay with you. A debut collection, sharp, philosophical, and quietly tender, for anyone who has ever felt the reflection on a dark screen looking back a little too long. For anyone who loved the unsettling humanity of George Saunders, the speculative tenderness of Ted Chiang, and the quiet strangeness of Black Mirror.