Remote Control

by Nnedi Okorafor

her mind was often clouded and those parts that were clear were populated with dark corners.

In Sankofa’s years on the road, she’d learned that people were complicated. They wore masks and guises to protect or hide their real selves. They reinvented themselves. They destroyed themselves. They built on themselves. She understood people and their often contradictory ways, but that robocop was not a person.

if there was one rule she lived by it was the fact that Stories were soothsayers, truth-tellers and liars.