New fiction: "The Gardener"

A story about an entity who plants seeds in a cellular automaton and then refuses to interfere when the garden grows beyond her design.

"You built this?"
"I planted the first seeds. The garden built itself."
"That's not what building means."
"I think that's exactly what building means."

Some things grow better when you stop designing them.

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