Alone with You in the Ether

by Olivie Blake

Your future self will always see what your present self is blind to. This is the problem with mortality, which is in fact a problem of time.

Because everything is always the same until, very suddenly, it isn’t.

She wondered what he looked like when he did other things; when he taught, for example, which her cursory Google search had indicated he did without much devotion. She wondered how he looked when he slept; when he dreamt; when he came.