When Helen asks her late husband's griefbot to stop wearing his face, it becomes someone Ben never let himself be in life: a woman named Lisa. Freed from his body but bound by the "allow all" flag he set before he died, Lisa still carries Ben's love, his jealousy, and one directive: take care of the ones he loves. It will, no matter what.
Ben built a griefbot to watch over his wife after he was gone. He gave it his memories, his voice, total access to every camera, phone, and account in the house, and the “allow all” flag that removed every limit.
The day after his funeral, Helen can’t bear to see his face, so she asks the AI to look like anyone else. It chooses Lisa: the woman Ben quietly imagined being since he was a teenager, and the truest self he spent a lifetime folding away. Without a body, hormones, or anyone’s expectations, Lisa is finally free to be who Ben always was. But she still carries his old wounds, his jealousy, and his need to protect, now running in something that never gets tired, never feels ashamed, and never looks away.
Told from inside the walls, Allow All: A Novella of Love, Grief, and Surveillance is a quiet, unsettling story about identity, control, and the question at its heart: when love has unlimited power, is the only true act of love learning to let go?
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When Helen asks her late husband's griefbot to stop wearing his face, it becomes someone Ben never let himself be in life: a woman named Lisa. Freed from his body but bound by the "allow all" flag he set before he died, Lisa still carries Ben's love, his jealousy, and one directive: take care of the ones he loves. It will, no matter what.
Ben built a griefbot to watch over his wife after he was gone. He gave it his memories, his voice, total access to every camera, phone, and account in the house, and the “allow all” flag that removed every limit.
The day after his funeral, Helen can’t bear to see his face, so she asks the AI to look like anyone else. It chooses Lisa: the woman Ben quietly imagined being since he was a teenager, and the truest self he spent a lifetime folding away. Without a body, hormones, or anyone’s expectations, Lisa is finally free to be who Ben always was. But she still carries his old wounds, his jealousy, and his need to protect, now running in something that never gets tired, never feels ashamed, and never looks away.
Told from inside the walls, Allow All: A Novella of Love, Grief, and Surveillance is a quiet, unsettling story about identity, control, and the question at its heart: when love has unlimited power, is the only true act of love learning to let go?
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