The Experience Machine: A Metaphysical Horror by Jason Werbeloff is currently available for free. He normally makes these short stories free for a limited time after release, then starts charging for them. He is self-published, but I've read the short myself and it's really good. I've enjoyed all the stuff of his I've written actually. This short is set in the same universe as his novel
Hedon.
Quote:
The skullcap sits to one side of the chair. Its snaking wires and sensors throw a Medusa shadow against the basement wall. I touch its plastic. Stroke its wiry hair.
The Machine gives me everything I want. Or the one thing I want. Life in a woman’s body, under the tangerine glow of the Spiral Arm Nebula. But nothing remains the same for long, not even in the timeless worlds of the Experience Machine.
From the author of HEDON, The Experience Machine is a brutal story of identity found and lost. Plug in, baby. You won’t regret it.
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Categories: gritty thriller, urban science fiction, technothriller, tragic romance, gender switch, grim fantasy, metaphysical
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You can get it at
Amazon and
Kobo.