Hey! I have a new book coming out on January 21st, Mitzvot! It's book 4 in the Post-Self cycle, but this snippet stands on its own reasonably well, so I figured I'd post it as a bit of a teaser.
Mitzvot won't be a standalone story, and relies on context from the first three books in the tetralogy. You can find all of those at the link above, where you can get paperbacks, ebooks, or read for free in the browser.
For context, the setting is a future of uploaded consciousnesses. This comes with pros and some cons. For instance, one is functionally immortal and can create copies of oneself at whim, and later merge them back in to have memories of their experiences. However, the complete inability to forget combined with that same immortality can be a little crazy-making.
"To be built to love is to be built to dissolve. It is to be built to unbecome. It is to have the sole purpose in life of falling apart all in the name of someone else.
"We all have a bit of that in us, do we not? You find yourself at a bar or maybe in some class somewhere, you look over, and there they are, right? You look over and you maybe catch their eye and you come undone at the seams. You fall into those big, beautiful eyes --- for when you are built to love, every eye that catches yours is the most beautiful thing of all time --- and you begin to flake away at the edges.
