Dan Freeman is a writer and teacher living in Philadelphia. His fiction has appeared in Azure and Fiction on the Web. He’s focused on environmental justice and is in nature whenever possible. "Seamless Transition" was a finalist in Temple University's Creative Writing Contest, summer 2020.

In front of him, for nearly every minute he was awake, there was a screen.He tried to recall a time when it wasn't this way. He couldn't, so he watched old movies to try to remember."Yeah, but this was Hollywood," he said to himself when he saw a man and a woman kissing on a first date, when he watched friends hug without a care in the world. "Nothing about their movies can be trusted."He returned to his work of updating software for the new version of a government surveillance app. He could do it in his sleep; he often felt like he did. Increasingly, he wasn't sure exactly when he was awake a

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