Message in a Bottle
by Nalo Hopkinson
An artist named Greg, who never wanted to have children, becomes close to Kamla, an
adopted daughter of a friend; the situation works out fine, even when Greg does have an
unexpected child with his girlfriend, and even when Kamla turns out to be one of the
thousands of children with extremely slow-growing bodies and minds from the future.
I'm from the Future, Says Bobble-Headed Boy.
“Message in a Bottle” by Nalo Hopkinson, in
Futureways, edited by Rita McBride and Glen Rubsamen (Arsenal Pulp Press,
April 2005).