Uploaded April 2021 | Updated September 2026, 3 days ago

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(This story is an adaptation of Plato's Allegory of the Cave) In a distant future, on a distant planet, a group of prisoners find themselves deceived since birth, contained inside a dome-shaped simulated reality, many layers removed from truth.

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