The Feels - Or The Debilitated Condition of the Reproductive System

2026 · 11 min · Science Fiction

The more you feel, the less it’s yours.

In a near-future world where engineered emotions have replaced real experience, a corporation sells “feels” distilled from social media memories. When a partner deletes their online past, a memory technician finds their relationship suddenly incompatible, as if it never existed. But as demand outpaces supply, the company begins harvesting the memories of its own workers, forcing them to confront a world where the more you feel, the less it’s yours.