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Suzanne Wright | Title Challenge: ONE LAST WORD
Author Guest / April 18, 2024

O: Old friends, turning into something more… N: Nobody puts Sara in a corner! E: Entrepreneurship after working in big tech   L: Love at age 34 A: Artificial intelligence runs wild! S: Sara Chae, the feisty heroine T: Tech makes the digital world go ‘round   W: Women in STEM O: OH NO…the feeling you get when drafted messages accidently get mailed out R: Requited love D: Development, both in a tech sense…and in love ONE LAST WORD by Suzanne Park What would you say to your meddling parents, your ex-best friend, your toxic boss, or your high school crush if you didn’t have to face the consequences? Sara Chae is the founder of One Last Word, an app that allows you to send a mes­sage to anyone you want after you pass. Safeguards are in place so the app will only send when you’re definitely, absolutely, 100% dead, but when another Sara Chae dies and her obituary is posted online, Sara discovers that drafted messages she had drunkenly uploaded on one night have been released —one each to her emotionally charged mother, to her former best friend who ghosted her, and to her unrequited high school crush, Harry Shim. Still reeling…