Just One Thing with Graham Robert Scott

Graham Robert Scott’s story “I Can Still Hear You Breathing” examines the risks of typing with predictive text. Here, he shares just one thing about the piece:

Years ago, tucked in the back seat with my younger son on a long car ride, I distracted him by playing with predictive text on my phone. It was a bit like Mad Libs, wherein you get a string of nonsense that mostly doesn't work but then, every once in a while, creates glee. We'd push it along and this or that would make him laugh, and more rarely, we'd both laugh. But then the phone's predictive text came up with "I can still hear you breathing," and I got goosebumps. When my phone looked the other way, I stole the title and ran with it.