>
> This led me to begin a challenge story about an artificial
> intelligence and his 'body'. It opens: "I don't remember being dead
> before." He had been turned off and then on again. They told him it
> was normal, that they had to cut the power every time they upgraded
> his hardware.
>
> He questioned why he couldn't remember things that he knew he should
> know. They told him it's because of a new file system for the disks
> holding his long-term memory, and that it was normal.
>
> As he finds traces that his logs have been edited, removing what might
> have been indications of suicidal ideation, he is less and less
> satisfied with what they are telling him.
>
> And then the story stalled. I know what has to come next, but the
> flow, the rhythm of the words, wants to take it in a different
> direction.
>