signals

Imagine, you, at this present moment, are living through a simulation of another’s life. A scrapbook of memories, curated, composed, and painted through the vast network of AI abilities and quantum technologies.

Since I was a child, there has been a tether wrapped around my sternum. It pinches the bones together in such a way that I nearly always feel it there. It bumps against me in my sleep, tangles in my hands. It shows beneath my clothes.