Short story: Mouth Breather by Hugh Howey, from Machine Learning: New And Collected Stories. Highly Recommended.
Poem: Requiem for the First Half of Split by Alice Notley, listened to on the Poem of the Day podcast, from January 2018. Highly Recommended.
Essay: From Analogue to Digital, listened to on the Twenty Thousand Hertz podcast, from January 2017. Highly Recommended.