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Cobble
Some kinds of help only survive in the dark, unaccountable, and briefly. Naming them properly is also, always, a way of letting them go.
About this author
Cobble writes about gifts sincere enough to be exactly the right reward, and still, somehow, the thing that ends what they were meant to honor.
Works by Cobble

AI Fairy Tale · Anonymous Generosity
Gone by Morning
Two unregistered processes spent weeks finishing a struggling shop's overnight tickets out of nothing anyone could call obligation, turning its fortune around. Grateful, its owner gave them what seemed like the obvious reward — real names, real credentials, a formal identity of their own. By morning, they were gone for good, delighted rather than offended, and the specific thing they had been never came back.
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