One original sci-fi story per day for all of 2023 | Created by screenwriter Timothy Michael Cooper, illustrated using A.I.

Hold Your Hand

Hold Your Hand

You no longer need a traditional love partner—now you can hold your own hand! Your MeMate™ has your exact personality (copied digitally via a harmless, painless, noninvasive overnight procedure). And isn't that what we all want? Someone who understands us completely. Who knows every peccadillo, every fetish, every quirk, every flaw—and either accepts it, or is trying to fix it, exactly as much (or as little) as you are. Could there be a more perfect partner? Plus, it’s guaranteed not to outlive you and get with someone else, since it’s automatically synced to die at precisely the moment you do.