{"id":29,"date":"2025-02-12T22:17:13","date_gmt":"2025-02-12T22:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mkeet.com\/?page_id=29"},"modified":"2025-12-13T12:18:56","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T12:18:56","slug":"short-stories","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mkeet.com\/?page_id=29","title":{"rendered":"Short stories"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Exploring writing short stories was initially motivated by the aim to make my non-fiction more engaging. The fiction I managed to conjure up was well-received and some of it ended up in the <a href=\"https:\/\/mkeet.com\/?page_id=20\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"20\">Autonomous Decisions<\/a> book. Its 100% fiction for entertainment, although I did have an eye on the possibility that it might also be educational for those who want it to be. Currently, my short stories edge towards reality-inspired fiction with a dose of computing and reflections on their position in society:<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eastoftheweb.com\/sites\/default\/files\/story-covers\/c_MeloGood1393_ip_cov.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"width:61px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eastoftheweb.com\/short-stories\/UBooks\/MeloGood1393.shtml\">Melokuhle &#8212; good things<\/a>, which was published on East of the Web in January 2024. Wheelchair-bound Lubanzi tries to make his somewhat culturally-aware care robot serve him more wine. It&#8217;s also the first story in the short story collection <a href=\"https:\/\/mkeet.com\/?page_id=20\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"20\">Autonomous Decisions<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eastoftheweb.com\/sites\/default\/files\/2024-08\/TheOUterCircCover.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"width:60px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eastoftheweb.com\/node\/7337\">The outer circle<\/a>; published on East of the Web in August 2024. A learner challenges his teacher on language varieties of LLMs and the tools (e.g., spelling checkers) that currently use data-driven techniques. <\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/mkeet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/BenCompCover.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-302\" style=\"width:60px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mkeet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/BenCompCover.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mkeet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/BenCompCover-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/mkeet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/BenCompCover-300x450.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eastoftheweb.com\/node\/7419\">Beneficial complications<\/a>; published on East of the Web in November 2025. Dr Domingos subverts the hospital&#8217;s electronic health record system for the patient&#8217;s benefit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exploring writing short stories was initially motivated by the aim to make my non-fiction more engaging. The fiction I managed to conjure up was well-received and some of it ended up in the Autonomous Decisions book. Its 100% fiction for entertainment, although I did have an eye on the possibility that it might also be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-29","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkeet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkeet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkeet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkeet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkeet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/mkeet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":304,"href":"https:\/\/mkeet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29\/revisions\/304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkeet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}