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The Architect
What would have happened if the architects of fate had not been endowed with feelings? It is difficult to say, but one thing can be said for this story would not have existed.
One autumn day, the Architect sets out for an exhibition of fates. In his hand is a small suitcase containing a TV—a container of fate.
While all the other architects follow the Bureau's instructions to ensure that the fates of the people entrusted to them do not stray from their course, our Architect is looking for a way to save the fate of one ballerina. After two years of reflection and indecision, a series of circumstances forces him to go against the Bureau of Architects and interfere with the mechanism of fate management.
This is a simple story that takes place here and now, placing the Architect before a most difficult to save himself or to save another.
One autumn day, the Architect sets out for an exhibition of fates. In his hand is a small suitcase containing a TV—a container of fate.
While all the other architects follow the Bureau's instructions to ensure that the fates of the people entrusted to them do not stray from their course, our Architect is looking for a way to save the fate of one ballerina. After two years of reflection and indecision, a series of circumstances forces him to go against the Bureau of Architects and interfere with the mechanism of fate management.
This is a simple story that takes place here and now, placing the Architect before a most difficult to save himself or to save another.
103 pages, Paperback
Published August 13, 2024
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March 17, 2025
Imagine a world in which architects of fate take professional responsibility for the lives of humans, tweaking their experiences and actions as necessary to keep them from harm or nudge them towards more fulfilling lives.
As with all professions, the architects of fate are governed by professional structures: apprenticeships, professional codes of conduct, theories and rivalries, competitions and honours. In particular, a certain distance is mandated between the architect and the lives architected. Get too close, too involved, breach professional boundaries and trouble ensues.
And, as is common among professionals who are, after all, also human, such involvement does happen. The Architect, a brilliant, but somewhat reclusive man is already too deeply involved with one of his fates, the ballerina Eve.
The attachment would have gone unnoticed but for some unfortunate slips, the impetuous actions of an annoying apprentice, and the righteous indignation of that boy's doting parents. There may or may not have been misconduct, but the police are called. A court must decide.
This whimsical drama is recounted in a delightful style. I felt like a kid sitting cross-legged on the rug at story time. It is full of phrases which demand that you stop and roll them around on the tongue. The dialogue is deft and kept me turning the pages. The author has created a wonderful curiosity: a textual diorama to be kept on a shelf and peered into, again and again. I look forward to more of her stories.
As with all professions, the architects of fate are governed by professional structures: apprenticeships, professional codes of conduct, theories and rivalries, competitions and honours. In particular, a certain distance is mandated between the architect and the lives architected. Get too close, too involved, breach professional boundaries and trouble ensues.
And, as is common among professionals who are, after all, also human, such involvement does happen. The Architect, a brilliant, but somewhat reclusive man is already too deeply involved with one of his fates, the ballerina Eve.
The attachment would have gone unnoticed but for some unfortunate slips, the impetuous actions of an annoying apprentice, and the righteous indignation of that boy's doting parents. There may or may not have been misconduct, but the police are called. A court must decide.
This whimsical drama is recounted in a delightful style. I felt like a kid sitting cross-legged on the rug at story time. It is full of phrases which demand that you stop and roll them around on the tongue. The dialogue is deft and kept me turning the pages. The author has created a wonderful curiosity: a textual diorama to be kept on a shelf and peered into, again and again. I look forward to more of her stories.
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