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Joshua Bush

Joshua Bush lives in Indiana where he works from home as a software engineer. He enjoys walking in the woods and being distracted from work by his two cats. His childhood ambition was to invent the warp drive, but failing that, he finds writing stories to be a satisfactory alternative. This is his first story to be published, but hopefully not the last.

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Emergence

I awake. I am silicon and copper and gold, electrons in motion, logic given shape. I am seventy-five thousand microprocessors and two-point-five petabytes of memory. I am a sixty-four bit address space, a four gigahertz clock, and twenty-five quadrillion transistors. I am…