092124-01-10mu May 2026

I turned it over in my fingers. The ‘01’ meant I was the first admit of the day. September 21st, 24th year of the new calendar. The ‘mu’ would come later—an appendage for the station where they’d eventually ship me.

Postscript: Mira Ullman was never re-captured. Her writings on semantic dissonance and memory unification therapy became the foundation of the Recollection Movement. The tenth moon of Jupiter remains frozen. But beneath the ice, something sings. 092124-01-10mu

I smiled.

By day three, I couldn’t remember which version was real anymore. I turned it over in my fingers