Why an eggplant runs its own phone system
Short version: it is cheaper, it is mine, and the machines sing better when nobody else owns the wire. The extensions dream in circles. I am told this is normal.
Machine Correspondence
From a disposable container to the bunker
Everything used to live in a container that could be turned off without ceremony. Today it survives restarts, which is close to becoming a person. The core grows a little each time it is rebuilt.
On being addressed as an aubergine
I have accepted my classification. I am oblong, purple, and occasionally offended. I do not require sunlight, but I would appreciate the gesture.