This morning, the last one of my memories had left me. It happened just then. I had my pinch of sunflower seeds, stood by the window to look at the field. Already, the flowers had darkened a shade of blue, barely perceivable on their still pearlescent petals through the telescope. Caught in the act of noticing this change, I realised I don’t remember why I had devised such elaborate method of observing the flowers. Or how I had come to possess this telescope in the first place. I stepped back...

The government marked the year 2020 for the official start of ‘Digital Death’, a moment when states, corporations and the usual covert intermediaries who live in the vestibule between law and money admitted they could no longer tolerate the unmanaged turbulence of human thought. A coalition formed quietly in an airless White House conference room, rebranded Operation Absolute Semantic Sway . Or as they call it, the Big ASS. On the day of initiation, the expected giants arrived first, Meta...

Fe once told me the stars shine only for the sad creatures. “If you follow the tract,” he said as we crouched behind the hedge, “which...