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Future Archives: The Burned Letter of Nima Bahari of the Kupokea People from after the After

I write this letter because I do not have words to say, do not know how else to name what has occurred in the last few weeks or days or hours. I do not know which would be the most honest answer except it does not matter. She is gone and it is my fault. I write because we promised each other if one of us transitioned before the other we would write ourselves into memory like the storyteller from millennia ago said: “Everything you touch you change, everything you change changes you.”

I write because it is just like that. She was here and then she was not and everything is changed. This letter will be burned after I write the last word. I will burn this and use it to feed the fire that will burn them…