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On Networking, Webs and Connectivity
by Angela Yuriko Smith

Thoughts are deadly gossamer, silvery filaments breaching the vacant void to reach me. Dangers tremble along my neural networks, each tentative vibration a warning that there is a ghost in the machine, a viral bug, a broken code. I see it in the clouds, weighted low with toxins. I taste it in the dew, flavored gray, wilting skin and organs from within. Language spewed to skew cellular structures, warping what began as holy into what ends in despair and disrepair. It takes one thought to derail a system, one word to destroy…

…and one word to open a door, welcome a generation, and invite a species to unite. Language connects, magic working through our veins, stardust in our hearts. Stories wind as gossamer, silvery filaments breaching the vacant void to reach me. My neural networks tremble, each vibration a signature. We are one within the cohort, a singularity within the society, individuals within the alliance. I call to my children, humming as I weave my webs, a mother’s melody of love. Come to me from the cities, ride the currents to return to where our heart resides.

We must remember.
She calls us home from chaos
to seed a new world.

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Fiction © Copyright Angela Yuriko Smith
Image courtesy of Pixabay.com.

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Angela Yuriko Smith is a third-generation Ryukyuan-American, award-winning poet, author, and publisher with 20+ years in newspapers. Publisher of Space and Time magazine (est. 1966), two-time Bram Stoker Awards® Winner, and HWA Mentor of the Year, she shares Authortunities, a free weekly calendar of author opportunities at authortunities.substack.com.