Currently in Birdy Magazine at https://www.birdymagazine.com/featured/hear-no-evil-speak-no-evil-by-joel-tagert-art-by-dave-danzara/. Full-sense sims are addictive—and the Three Monkeys will do anything to shut down the neuroport clinics.

I want to get a port.

Absolutely not.

All my friends have them.

What friends?

My friends online.

Those aren’t your friends. You’ve never even met them.

That’s not true, Mom. I know them. You should see the places we go.

Alex, you don’t go anywhere. You hang out in your room all day with your goggles on. You probably don’t even know their real names. Don’t even know what they look like.

Names don’t matter. Bodies don’t matter.