Two figures, one sleeping, one sitting, dissolving into dust. Illustration by Reiko Murakami. The la
Two figures, one sleeping, one sitting, dissolving into dust. Illustration by Reiko Murakami.The latest from Daniel José Older, “Dust”, at Lightspeed Magazine.Very late at night, when the buzz of drill dozers has died out, I can hear her breathing. I know that sounds crazy. I don’t care.Tonight, I have to concentrate extra hard because there’s a man lying beside me; he’s snoring with the contented abandon of the well-fucked and all that panting has heavied up the air in my quarters. Still, I can hear her, hear her like she’s right behind my ear or curled up inside my heart. She’s not of course. If anything, I’m curled up in hers.But then again, her dust covers everything, all of us. It coats the inner walls of this station even though it’s airtight. It coats my inner walls. It’s reddish and probably lethal, but who knows? We’ve never seen anything like it before. -- source link
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