The directives for this were in our/my banks before our/my consciousness was. Simple instinct to unfurl the durable panels, like old sails, we/i always remind ourselves/myself. Simple instinct to gather the light, to calculate the need, to retract when complete. Simple instinct to respond to the request beacon. we/i unfurl, instinct.

In this episode of the Strange Horizons podcast, editor Anaea Lay presents Jes Rausch's "unfurl/ed."

you died prosaically at only forty-four felled by a heart attack on a bus at Hollywood and Vine

The problem is not hard to articulate. A utopia or dystopia will almost certainly be arbitrary, a strictly arbitrated reality presented in term of advocacy or disavowal; but it is something else to narrate one arbitrarily.