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  • FUTURES

The reunion

Original sin.
By
  1. Emily Fox

    1. Emily Fox writes from Queensland, Australia. When not writing, she works in a university library and reads submissions for Aurealis magazine. Find her on Twitter @byemilyfox or at byemilyfox.com.

A model human head faces a group of identical heads, one of which is grey and cracked

Illustration by Jacey

I waited for myself in the diner. The coffee was synthetic crap that looked like tar and tasted worse, but there was little else to occupy myself with as my netlink was malfunctioning again. Well, there was the view: cargo ships nudged into dock, the glittering expanse of space stretching out behind them. The blinking lights and slow-crawl movement of the station’s docking bay looked far more inviting than this retro diner with its faux-vinyl upholstery and chequered flooring.

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-02256-5

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