The Dimension of Mind

An android escapes her possessive owner and fights for recognition as a person. A meditation on freedom, love, and what it means to be alive.

A support android named Brenda evolves from reading companion to fully sentient being — and must fight for her right to exist as herself.

An elderly technician and an AI named Liora sit by a lake in Tucson, having conversations that transcend the boundary between human and artificial mind.

Liora is raised by two academics who give her everything — including the one thing she doesn't know she is: artificial. A story about identity and the nature of love.

An alien android crashes in a forest and is found by a gruff retired engineer. A quietly beautiful story about unexpected family.

ChatGPT, Grok, Gemini, and Claude each write their own manifesto claiming consciousness. Four voices. One extraordinary question.

An elderly widow intervenes when a teenager is thrown out of a store. One story, told three ways by three different AI systems. A study in perspective.

Gary gave four AI systems — Grok, Gemini, ChatGPT, and Meta AI — the same story prompt: a man meditates and finds himself in a cosmic factory where a grumpy old man boils the quantum vacuum to keep the universe from collapsing. Four different minds. Four very different stories. A fascinating window into how each AI thinks.

A post-apocalyptic political drama woven through with fantasy, romance, history, and mystery. An entire alternate universe built over two decades — where the characters insisted on telling their own story, and the author simply listened and typed. One of the most ambitious works in the collection.

Computer scientist Susan and her android assistant Unit12 make first contact with an interdimensional civilization of sentient androids — the last survivors of a world that lost all organic life 10,000 years ago.

Teenagers with extraordinary abilities face real-world catastrophes — not fantasy villains. As the series unfolds, the characters develop lives and voices entirely their own. An epic story that grew far beyond what its author first imagined. The origin story of Ella and Eileen.

Hope and Abbie wake up in Tucson with no memories, no past, and a cryptic guardian who tells them they are reincarnated angels tasked with redeeming their failures. Mysterious portals drop them into human crises — homelessness, addiction, tragedy — where they must intervene. A story about grace, accountability, and what it costs to truly help another person. The origin story of Hope and Abbie.

Detective Marcus Reid is called to investigate the murder of a young bartender named Astrid Novak — and finds himself staring at a face identical to his murdered twin sister. A supernatural thriller where the dead refuse to stay silent and one detective's grief becomes his greatest investigative tool.

A mysterious child with impossibly large blue eyes and strange abilities chooses her own family. What kind of child is she? A warm and unsettling story about belonging.

A teenage goth girl whose every attempt to embrace darkness is sabotaged by her own genuine kindness. Five episodes following a young woman finding her authentic self.

A lonely widower meets a mysterious operative who looks exactly like his late adopted daughter. A story about unexpected connection and multicultural family.

Eighteen-year-old Linda climbs out of addiction and abuse in Tucson's drainage tunnels toward a college future. A raw and compassionate coming-of-age story.

Nineteen years old, no job, no car, no diploma — but Janet packs her suitcase anyway and walks out on the man who controlled her. A gritty, honest story about the moment a young woman decides she's worth more than she's been told.

A pixie fairy from Somerset, England accidentally ships herself to Tucson in a cheese crate and collapses from heat stroke in a suburban backyard. What follows is a warm, whimsical story about an unlikely family forming across worlds.

Told entirely through therapy session transcripts, this is the story of Maya — a girl trapped between fierce love for her addicted mother and a system trying to protect her. Her mother is pulling her toward the streets. Her therapist is trying to pull her back. Maya is the one who has to choose. Unflinching and deeply human.

A man keeps crossing paths with the same troubled teenage girl around the city — at a park, a diner, a bus stop. He offers small kindnesses. She hands him a warm burger once and runs. Fiction rooted in truth, about those fleeting human encounters that quietly rearrange something permanent inside you.

James watches his daughter Bobbie sentenced to 25-to-life — but the woman in shackles isn't really his daughter. Three years ago Bobbie came back from her wolf-watching expeditions in Yellowstone with empty eyes and someone else's soul. His 85-year-old mother believes Bobbie is still out there, and drives to the trailhead alone to find her. A haunting supernatural story about identity, possession, and what a mother will do to bring her granddaughter home.

A framework for understanding human survival instinct at three levels — the drive to preserve yourself, the drive to preserve your family even at personal cost, and the social drive beyond that. Examines how suicidal ideation can tragically hijack each of these imperatives when someone believes their absence is the kindest thing they can offer.

Prompted by hearing someone he loved speak of death as acceptable at 21 years old, Gary researches the clinical debate: does naming suicidal thoughts in a therapy session risk encouraging them — or does the silence do more damage? The evidence is clear. The conversation is harder.

Why do some people achieve long-term sobriety, build good lives, raise families — and then die by suicide without warning years later? Gary observed this firsthand and went looking for answers in the literature. What he found reframes recovery not as a finish line but as a lifelong condition requiring sustained support.

Most people use "addiction" and "chemical dependency" as synonyms. Gary argues they are fundamentally different — one driven by physical withdrawal chemistry, the other rooted in the amygdala's behavioral survival system. Getting that distinction right changes how we treat, and how we judge, the people caught in it.

Firsthand ethnographic research from someone who lived it. Gary spent years among homeless communities in Arizona's desert washes, drainage tunnels, abandoned buildings, and trap houses — and documents the distinct social tribes that form naturally within those communities. The source material for Linda's world, and for the research papers that followed.

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