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In The Listening Machine and Other Stories, Toronto writer and artist Mark Joseph O’Connell gathers eight vivid, intimate stories about art, grief, desire, bodies, memory, performance, and the technologies of attention. A musician rescues three piglets from a cruel conceptual artwork and finds her rage becoming song. A widowed astrophotographer searches the winter sky for a way to survive the death of his husband. A mother and son confront faith, illness, shame, and tenderness in Rome. A band fractures under the pressure of love and ambition. An aging painter faces desire, fatherhood, legacy, and the fear of disappearing. A fashion designer’s life becomes an elegy for beauty, chosen family, and queer survival. An artist discovers the violence hidden inside another artist’s gaze. And in the title story, a lonely man’s emotionally attentive AI companion becomes both sanctuary and threat. Moving between realism, satire, elegy, sensuality, and speculative fiction, these stories ask what remains of us after another person, artwork, institution, memory, or machine claims to know us completely.

The Listening Machine and Other Stories

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