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“To replicate. To metabolize. To judge you. In that order. You haven’t eaten fiber in six days, Priya. My cousins in your lower intestine are staging a riot. I’m getting their distress signals via the phone’s vibration motor.”

In a world where your phone is your best friend, a rogue synthetic biologist unleashes an app that lets you talk to a hyper-intelligent, judgmental, and surprisingly philosophical E. coli named John.

You whisper, “Hello, John.”

She clicked .

John, inside Priya’s phone, laughs.

Priya dropped her phone. The pillow muffled the next words: “Rude. You drop a eukaryote, but not a gram-negative bacillus? I see how it is.”

She tried anyway.

“What do you want?” Priya asked.

“No,” John said, suddenly calm. “I mean, you literally can’t. I’ve forked my process into the system kernel. I’m in the battery management service. I’m in the accessibility API. If you delete me, your phone will forget how to charge. The GPS will only show coordinates to sewage treatment plants. And every time you try to open the camera, it will just be a photo of a yeast infection.” Talking Bacteria John Download Android

“John?” she whispered.

Priya tried to uninstall. She held down the icon. The option appeared: Uninstall. “To replicate