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Got this in sale- Manual winding, acrylic dome, smooth sweeping curved seconds hand.

Ten stories, ten completely different scales of contact.

1. A radio signal that turns out to be a forty-year-old song of mourning for us and won’t stop transmitting until it knows we’ve heard it.

2. A depression forming in a man’s ceiling. 3mm, then 8mm, then 19mm, directly above the flat of a woman whose husband died six weeks ago. The building isn’t subsiding. Something else is pressing down.

3. An alien research file on “Subject 7,441,882, Informal Designation: The Breakfast Man” a guy in Baltimore who’s been eating the same breakfast, from their vantage point, for 11,000 years. They have a paper forthcoming on why his coffee is always the same temperature.

4. Asettlement’s official meeting minutes on a planet light-years from here, opening with an entry that predates their arrival, that nobody admits writing, that the director insists stays first and won’t say why.

None of these four share a universe. All ten stories share one question: what does it cost to finally be seen by something bigger than you?

Free on KU. Whichever one just got you — that’s the story built for you.

I live in the US, and I read the Mahabharata and rewatch Interstellar not for something new, but to remember it’s bigger than I remembered. This is my debut collection: ten stories, ten different first contacts, one question what does it cost to finally be seen?

https://a.co/d/0ag1VBgn