Leah Cypess

writer
Short Story

Unredacted Reports from 1546

  • by Leah Cypess
  • Future Science Fiction Digest #11, June 2021 [e-zine · webzine]

An 18-year-old history student hopes to show that her research subject, 16th-century poet Lucia of Gonzaga, was a modern woman supressed by her time period, but as the traveling student sends messages back to her 21st-century mentor, she reveals more than just history as she’d hoped it would be. —Michael Main
You were wrong about my age, though. In the sixteenth century, I’m an adult. I am physically mature and able to bear children, and that’s all that matters. No one cares about the completeness of my frontal lobe.
Large, spherical glass terrariums float above a futuristic city in the sky.
  • Science Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel