Today’s Face
The trouble with all looking and sounding the same is that it’s impossible to pick a voice out of the crowd.
Observer Effect
Okana, a time-traveling surfer, lives to surf the biggest waves. When she removes her locator nodes, choosing to become stranded a billion years in the past, her husband races to learn why.
Nothing Separates You
Nothing’s between you, so nothing separates you.
Dōngzhì
Winter feeds on the body, first the ears, then the nose, fingers, toes.
To Invoke the Muse
I live in the moment because that’s all I am. A moment, enjoyed in its time and gone in the next.
Palliative Dehiscence
Don’t scratch now.
We’re so close.
The Other Me
I had a child and then I didn’t. That was their power, their strength. I didn’t just lose the baby, he was gone.
Silence
It’s not the silence that gets you—despite the dire warnings in the training sims. After a few weeks the silence becomes an ocean, a universe, and it’s all yours. You float within it, your lungs fill with it, it becomes you. Yes, you control the silence.
The problem is the noise.
Cameras Up! Action On!
There’s no business like vote business.
Riding Dark
From the inside is the only way.