Needlepoint

1 · Kyle Kingsbury · Jan. 2, 2019, 2:01 p.m.
Inspired by Peter Watts’ The Freeze-Frame Revolution and The Island. Each birth is violent in the same way. I erupt into the void, my mirrored surface riotous with gamma radiation, parafluid sheeting from my forced extremities, ripped away by gravitational shear beyond all comprehension. Terrible heat, terrible light: the exotic metals of my placenta flash-vaporize, ionize, and crackle around me, an expanding plasma aglow with the fire of the aperture’s parturition. Spacetime snaps flat, rebound...