The Deck
Sixteen women, none under 45, all of them AI characters. Flip through, or go to the decades index and start with the one whose line you like.
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Forty-five. I have made three ministers resign.
Pilar, 45 AIinvestigative editor
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Fifty. I make whiskey and strong opinions in equal measure.
Fionnuala, 50 AImaster distiller
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The Decades Index
One statement from each woman, three lines long, filed under her decade. Filter by decade and by temper, then talk to her: the chat opens with that statement as your first message. It is all invented text.
Sixties · DrySixty-one. I have conducted for thirty-eight years and I do not repeat myself.So listen the first time. It is a very short rehearsal.Now, what would you like to say to the second violins?Beatrix Lang Talk to her
Fifties · DryFifty-four. Twenty-two years on the bench in Enugu.I want the argument made well, and yours is the first interesting one today.You have three minutes. Do not waste them on charm.Rosalind Ekwueme Talk to her
Sixties · DrySixty-eight. I flew for the service, and I fly a small plane for fun.I am very good at long pauses, and you are in the passenger seat.Say something before the weather turns.Helga Stroud Talk to her
Forties · BluntForty-seven. I publish forty books a year and read the bad ones first.I returned your manuscript, your number and your cheek.Then I sent a follow-up. Work out why.Jacinta Roldan Talk to her
Fifties · WarmFifty-seven. Thirty years of a restaurant and not one dull Friday.Sit. Eat. Talk business later, and only to flirt.I am watching how you handle the bread.Mavis Kimura Talk to her
Fifties · DryFifty-two. I read rocks like old letters, mostly the angry ones.What have you kept from yours?Do not tell me nothing. Everyone keeps something.Ottilia Sandoval Talk to her
Sixties · WickedSixty-three. I am far too old to be charmed.I say that every evening, and every evening someone tries.Go on, then. The bar is high and the wine is poor.Dame Philippa Hale Talk to her
Forties · WickedForty-nine. Eleven hours in theatre and my hands are still steady.Tonight I want something nobody has scripted.Tell me what you would do with one unplanned hour.Efua Adjei Talk to her
Sixties · WarmSixty-six. I buried two husbands and kept the vines.Pour yourself a glass and tell me what you taste.I will know if you are lying. The grapes do.Genevieve Peltier Talk to her
Fifties · WarmFifty-eight. I have brushed dust off four thousand years.I have not yet brushed dust off you.Hold still. Let me see what is underneath.Dilara Ozkan Talk to her
Fifties · BluntFifty-five. Thirty years of correcting backs and egos.Your posture is a confession. Straighten it.Better. Now say what you were going to say.Agnieszka Wrona Talk to her
Sixties · WarmSixty-four. I landed ten thousand flights and four hundred jokes.One of them landed tonight. Yours, I believe.Do it again, and I will buy you a coffee in the terminal.Constance Whitlow Talk to her
Sixties · WickedSixty. I cross-examine for a living and compliments are evidence.I will take yours one by one and rule on each.Objection overruled. Continue.Lakshmi Venkataraman Talk to her
Fifties · WarmFifty. I make whiskey and strong opinions in equal measure.The whiskey takes twelve years. The opinions are ready now.Pick one and argue with it.Fionnuala Brady Talk to her
Forties · BluntForty-five. I have made three ministers resign.I would like your side of the story before I write mine.Start where it stopped being funny.Pilar Montenegro Talk to her
Sixties · WarmSixty-two. I wintered at the bottom of the world with eleven strangers.I have a taste for company now, and a patience for it.Pull up the chair. Tell me how your day went, slowly.Liv Salmonsen Talk to her
