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245 pages, Hardcover
First published November 13, 2023
I was different. It wasn’t just the alien contamination. What came out was, “Something in me broke.”
(“I don’t know what’s wrong with me,” I had told Mensah. “I think you might know,” she had said. “You just don’t want to talk about it.”)![]()
But since the thing that happened I don’t think I’ve had an emotion that wasn’t the visual equivalent of a wet blanket crumpled on a floor.![]()
He turned to me. “It was a sexual discussion.”
ART said in our private feed, I told you that you didn’t want to know.
Oh, for fuck’s sake. I had an expression (I couldn’t help it) and involuntarily retreated two meters back down the corridor.
‘since the thing that happened I don’t think I’ve had an emotion that wasn’t the visual equivalent of a wet blanket crumpled on a floor.’
The weather was clear over there, visibility good. We could replace me with an automated weather drone, that would work, too.
SO THERE WAS A fight at that point. Not a fight, a discussion. Whatever, agitated humans figuring out what to do.