Infuriated passengers said they found it ironic that Southeastern was advertising the podcasts from stars promoting train journeys to Kent and East Sussex while standing on packed and late services.
Amarillo is a city where conformity counts, so the death of a punk at the hands of a football player had more than a little symbolic significance there. So did the jury’s decision to keep the killer from going to jail.
In “Notifications,” Lincoln Michel looks closely at how a person s day can be awkwardly reconfigured by an algorithm. Michel s stories frequently adjust the knobs of the present and settle in the uncanny valley, like Saunders s, or amplify a feeling that something is fundamentally off with our timeline. Here, Michel explores the emotional implications of technology, a sort of hard sci-fi realism that drops the reader into a plausible hologram of workplace interaction. The always overthought, dreamlike logic is not dissimilar to the way a Kafka story, like “The Judgment,” operates. Kafkaesque indecision, but now with cell phones!