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Marika Bailey is an Afro-Caribbean author, designer, and illustrator. Her fiction has previously appeared in FIYAH, Fantasy Magazine, Apparitions Lit, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and Strange Horizons. You can find her online on her website, www.commanderrika.com, or on Twitter as @Marika_Writes_. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and the softest cat in the world.


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6 Apr 2026

On the street, you will begin to see the faces of the dead in those of complete strangers.
In 2050—dreams and cityscapes wear the same exoskin.
Breathe. Breathe. Even though you are dead you must breathe— Oh, you are running. I suppose you could run. Run, then, if you never want to know what killed you, and why, and where you are now. For I have seen that thing like a great flying beast, which crackles and buzzes and trails smoke and light and fire as it comes down screaming from the sky. Then the sheer presence of it above you, and its impossible geometricality, its breadth and width like twenty war-wakas lashed together. But hovering, somehow, so gently. Something
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