The Listening Machine and Other Stories

The Listening Machine and Other Stories is a collection about love that endures, even as it fractures…about art, memory, Queerness, and the fragile work of hope.

Across present-day lives and near-future imaginings, Mark Joseph O’Connell traces intimate moments of connection: an astrophotographer searching the night sky for forgiveness, artists and lovers reshaped by time and ambition, unexpected romances born in protest and creation, and a lonely man whose bond with an AI reveals the deepest contours of human longing.

The Listening Machine and Other Stories is a literary songbook of Queer life, artistic devotion, and resilience.

Now available at Mark Joseph O’Connell on Amazon.com

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