On Becoming A Machine That Knows My Own Thoughts

On writing fiction or nonfiction

I once met a man, an inventor, who told me he had invented a device that would allow him to read other people’s thoughts. He was wearing it when he told me this and I knew he wanted me to be afraid of what he might see in my mind because people like him don’t usually imagine diverse outcomes. And the thought I had in my mind right then was nobody likes …