Remote Control

by Nnedi Okorafor

Spiders always had better things to do. She wondered what story it would weave about her and how far the story would carry.

Fear of death is a powerful weapon.”

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.

She’d let it be lost; she had let go. And because of that, the goddamn, evil, vindictive, life-destroying thing had decided to change tactics and find her.