'When I first became interested in computer-generated text, it was through Twitter bots. Littered periodically through my feed were posts from these odd machines: whether it was emoji art, micro-stories, or news-headlines-turned-haikus, I loved how these varied outputs brought a whimsical inflection to my doom-scrolling. My favourite bot was called @a_long_drive, which posted short prose fragments of two unnamed characters on an endless, unsettling road trip:' (Introduction)