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Orange

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BY Susan Forest

She saw the pits in her mind, like bomb craters filled with oily stink, like gaping black mouths between mounds of rubble and crumpled steel. Refugees looting corpses, children darting into dark crevices. “The world is too changed to understand, so we focus on the things we can understand. Small things.” He shrugged. “We’re next. Double check your papers.”

Disquieting Postcards I’ve Recently Received from My Future Self

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BY Mark A. Rayner

Recognize the handwriting? Yeah, it’s me. More precisely, it’s you, circa fifteen years from now. Good news — you’ve finally lost that twenty pounds! Too bad you had to amputate your right leg to do it.

Touch the Sky, They Say

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BY Matt Moore

Four steps up onto the observation platform and the sky is barely a foot above my head. Featureless, grey — a morning headache after a bad night’s sleep. Same as it looks from the street, forty-one floors down.

A Little Thing

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BY Damon Shaw

The ship stood inside itself and looked out through blue fabricated eyes. From beneath rain-wet trees, it watched the last villagers toiling up the hill towards Alice’s cottage. Sensors in the old woman’s bed (pulse fifty-two bpm and falling), told the ship it was time.

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