Inheritance.
The article centers on a family’s complex relationship with a futuristic technology developed by a company that implants chips to capture and preserve individuals’ happiest memories, called "hap-mos," as high-resolution video files for loved ones to experience after death. The narrator and her siste...
| Publicado en: | Southern Humanities Review Vol. 59; no. 1; pp. 104 - 119 |
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| Formato: | Short Story |
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Southern Humanities Review
Spring2026
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