Bethelem

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This showed up in Tesseracts 5, edited by Yves Meynard and Robert Runté, one of a semiregular antho series put out by Tesseracts Books of Edmonton (now engulfed and incorporated into Edge Books, of Calgary). It basically uses a failed relationship as a vantage point on global ecological collapse, through the eyes of a failed academic who’s learned that quantum mechanics can be used for things beyond the usual parallel worlds and DVD players.

Denial, for instance...

It was her own damn fault.

No. No, that’s not right. But Christ, look at this place; what did she expect, living here?

A dried blood stain smears a meter of sidewalk, a rusty backdrop for broken bottles and the twisted skeleton of an old tenspeed. Everything is too big. All this jagged structure, so solid and visible, frightens me. I focus on the stain, search for some hint of its unseen complexity. I want to throw myself down through familiar orders of magnitude and see inside; dead erythrocytes, molecules of ferrous haemoglobin, single atoms dancing in comforting envelopes of quantum uncertainty.

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