Maybe by imagining these futures we can make them real, and maybe not, but either way we must imagine them.

“May I see you again?" he asked. There was an endearing nervousness in his voice…”

“Thank you," I say, pounding his back probably too hard. "That was the best damn…”

“The Buddha said that suffering was caused by desire, we'd learned, and that the…”

“But monotony doesn't make for painlessness. In the first century CE, Roman auth…”