I didn’t understand this poetic story of a failing engineering student, Hala, who imagines
that a phone call of white noise is many different things, one of which is a call from the
future—but I am delighted by the mastery of language by my former teacher at the University
of Kansas Center for the Study of Science fiction. She and I also had a perfect day climbing
in the western foothills of the Cascade Mountains.
It is the future.
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