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Kolumbo 1619: Choose Your Own Adventure
KÁNYIN Olorunnisola

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AITA for telling my genetic double she can’t be transgender?
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Kolumbo 1619: Choose Your Own Adventure

By KÁNYIN Olorunnisola | https://www.khoreomag.com/author/kanyin-olorunnisola/ | KÁNYIN Olorunnisola
Edited by Isabella Kestermann || Narrated by - || Produced by -
Violence, Death, Racism, Hateful Language, Xenophobia
2650 words
Thank you for playing, Malik! What is your next course of action?
{EXIT GAME}   {REQUEST TRANSCRIPT}
Good choice. Below is the requested text-based transcript of your most recent gaming session narrated in the Personalized Monological Language built to specifically imitate your avatar’s diction:
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Session: 631XN. Date: 06.25.2020
Welcome to Kolumbo 1619, the world’s greatest techno-empathy simulation, developed by CRACK® Inc. as part of our efforts to eliminate racism, inequality, and injustice through highly immersive, story-driven roleplay experiences. 
Please keep your helmet on throughout the game so as not to interrupt the experience.
{SINGLE PLAYER MODE ACTIVATED}
{CHOOSE AVATAR NAME}
{a} Bullseye
{b} Bullseye
{c} Bullseye
SMART CHOICE! THANK YOU FOR YOUR SELECTION!
{LOADING}

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KÁNYIN Olorunnisola is the founder of SPRINNG and former Nonfiction Editor of the Black Warrior Review. His debut short film, Chiaroscuro, premiered at the 2024 Rising Tide Film Festival. His writing appears in Al Jazeera, FIYAH, Georgia Review, Harvard’s Transition, and elsewhere. His work has been supported or recognized by the Levitetz Leadership Program, Speculative Literature Foundation, Miles Morland Foundation, and the Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP). His full-length poetry collection, ARA’LUEBO: The Immigrant Monologues, is forthcoming in spring 2026, courtesy of Acre Books. He has an MFA from the University of Alabama.
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