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The Gift

By: Joseph Sparandera
Narrated by: Ashley Pomeroy
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A bachelor party. A machine that resurrects the dead. And a gift that should never have been opened. It was supposed to be the ultimate gift. Four friends, one last free night, and a private suite at EternaAI where the most advanced technology on earth can summon anyone from the past, breathing and present and real. For the groom, they choose a legend: a silver-screen goddess gone for half a century. They pay for the version that withholds nothing. What they encounter is not the woman from the posters. It's someone far more real...

A haunting short story about desire, grief, and the terrible cost of getting exactly what you asked for. More than fantasy. Experience.

©2026 Joseph G Sparandera (P)2026 Joseph G Sparandera Anthologies & Short Stories Science Fiction Short Stories
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