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by Lorraine Schein

A woman from the future is looking for me.

To her, I am an old book,

a yellowing manuscript,

at best, a decayed, antique memory chip.

To me, she is a new technology

composed of unknown materials that I can’t even see:

a gleaming futurity--

with rights that were our ecstasies.

Lorraine Schein is a New York writer. Her work has appeared in Strange Horizons, VICE Terraform, Syntax and Salt, and Little Blue Marble and in the anthologies Tragedy Queens: Stories Inspired by Lana del Rey & Sylvia Plath, Eighteen (Underland Press) and Community of Magic Pens. The Futurist’s Mistress, her poetry book, is available from Mayapple Press.