After that announcement, she pulled all the government brochures about the teleportation devices out of the mail, leaving the rest for Má and Ba to sort after they came home from work. She spent hours reading them with baby Xuyên in her lap. Even though she didn’t know much English, she knew some words that I hadn’t learned yet, like “liability” and “atomization.”
In this episode of the Strange Horizons podcast, editor Anaea Lay presents T.K. Lê's “2086.”
it hurts to unbutton / his name from / your skin, undo the map / his hands made
