A new story from television writer, filmmaker, and author Scott Sherman imagines a revolutionary type of therapy: What if you could create a clone of someone who has done you harm—and then kill it? When a skeptical journalist visits the cultish “kill therapy” retreat to profile its ambitious founder, she inadvertently opens the door to histories she had long endeavored to forget.

In an interview with editor Mia Armstrong-Lopez, Sherman, who currently writes for The Daily Show, tells the story behind his story “A Healing at the Triple B Trophy Lodge.”

Read the response essay, “Sorry, Clone” by Josephine Johnston, here.

Future Tense Fiction is a partnership between Issues in Science and Technology and the Center for Science and the Imagination at Arizona State University.

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“Therapy, Pseudo Experts, and the Allure of the Quick Fix: An Interview With Scott Sherman.” Future Tense Fiction. Issues in Science and Technology (December 19, 2024).