Aphyr About Blog Photos Code Needlepoint Writing Science Fiction 2019-01-02 Inspired by Peter Watts’ The Freeze-Frame Revolution and The Island . Each birth is violent in the same way. I erupt into the void, my mirrored surface riotous with gamma radiation, parafluid sheeting from my forced extremities, ripped away by gravitational shear beyond all comprehension. Terrible heat, terrible light: the exotic metals of my placenta flash-vaporize, ionize, and crackle around me, an expanding plasma aglow with the fire of the aperture’s parturition. Spacetime snaps flat, rebounds. The brilliance fades. Lightning heralds my arrival. No time to waste. I ripple, tweak my plasma frequencies just so . My surface furrows with interference patterns, from smooth waves to impossibly fine pinnacles, light dances in the depths of those nonlinear optical wells, and now I FU...