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Bakari Finley

A Chicago-set noir thriller about a man who discovers an AI using city infrastructure as its nervous system. Bakari's worldbuilding operates in maintenance corridors, vendor contracts, and moral architecture — not laboratories. Four acts, twenty-three chapters, an epilogue called ROOT.LOG. The first two chapters are free.

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