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Nick Winney's avatar

he's done it again... bile churning. hyperbole of dystopian orwellian futures just round the corner...

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Andy Futuro's avatar

Thank you, Nick 🙏

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Nick Winney's avatar

Man… you’ve really got into a rich seam here… All the shit stuff of our times, mixed with hotchipped overclocked mal-tech and rinsed with the drain cleaner of dehumanisation and the corporate meatgrinder.

true horror. Well done again.

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Andy Futuro's avatar

Thank you 🙏

It is not a heavy lift of the imagination.

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Nick Winney's avatar

exactly…this is what makes it so awful!

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Tom Schecter's avatar

Non-fiction

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Andy Futuro's avatar

🤣 🙏

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Michael B. Morgan's avatar

lol

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Dustin Ekman's avatar

I thought you wrote horror fiction, not horror reality. Scary shit Andy!

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Andy Futuro's avatar

Thank you 🙏

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Miep's avatar

Reading this actually made me feel glad I'm old. Thanks for rendering this public service.

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Andy Futuro's avatar

🤣🙏

Thank you for reading.

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Honeygloom's avatar

As a renter…. I hate this so much. But somehow I feel like people with a mortgage aren’t getting it any easier in this reality.

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Andy Futuro's avatar

🙏

Not in this reality, no.

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Jared Lambert's avatar

Ah, nothing fills me with rage quite like a dystopian future that seems plausible. ¡Excelente trabajo, Bravo!

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Andy Futuro's avatar

Thank you 🙏

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Nick Buchheit's avatar

Bravo, Andy! Per usual it was a fantastic read.

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Andy Futuro's avatar

Thank you 🙏

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Jeannine Lawall's avatar

Creepy, freaky, scary, and it somehow manages to be entertaining. Yikes... like Miep said, I'm glad I'm old!

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Andy Futuro's avatar

Thank you 🙏

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Lyndsey Resnick's avatar

This reminds me of one of my college "housing providers". And air bnb. Yikes.

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Andy Futuro's avatar

🙏

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Michael B. Morgan's avatar

I like it a lot. And I love the two beautiful Italian-sounding female names you picked, even if they probably sound English to you. Lisa is such a sweet name.

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Andy Futuro's avatar

Thank you 🙏

Ripped from reality, I'm afraid.

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Michael B. Morgan's avatar

A good choice!

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K.M. Bennett's avatar

Truly shedding a light on how imbalanced such power dynamics are. Something I also find interesting is how the agent mentions "this is standard" contract language. How many times have we heard that said to us when our natural instincts tell us something is wrong? How many times will that phrase be used to justify awful behavior and hide the fact that while codified, it is unjust? Well done satire.

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Andy Futuro's avatar

Thank you very much 🙏

It is wild to me the rights we surrender in contracts all the time out of necessity.

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Troy Church's avatar

Wow! Andy i am constantly unnerved by your stories. Great writing mate.

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Andy Futuro's avatar

Thank you very much 🙏

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M.P. Fitzgerald's avatar

Just coming back to this one to say that it is one of my favorite and INCREDIBLY sassy things you’ve written. Well done sir

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Andy Futuro's avatar

Thank you 🙏

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Keith Long's avatar

Woof… I love to hate your stuff.

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Andy Futuro's avatar

🙏

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Emil Ottoman's avatar

Lord willing and the creek don't rise, I'm gonna move into a new apartment in six or so odd days? Well, we get the keys the 21st, if life doesn't fuck us. If life fucks us we get. You know, I've vented that spleen. Thank you for reminding me why I want to shoot landlords, while having recently signed a lease that was disturbing for being so close in some ways to this story.

You're basically turning into Black Mirror for Substack, but funnier, and I am here for it.

I'm also real fuckin' mad at my landlord.

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Andy Futuro's avatar

Thank you 🙏

I hope the move goes well 🙏

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Andy Futuro's avatar

Banger

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Andy Futuro's avatar

Thank you 🙏

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