This All Come Back Now by Mykaela Saunders

Author:Mykaela Saunders
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: University of Queensland Press
Published: 2022-03-21T04:54:27+00:00

MERRYANA SALEM (they/them) is a proud Wonnarua and Lebanese author, culture critic, teacher and all-round geek. Their work has been published in The Big Issue, Kill Your Darlings and Junkee, but you can also find them yarning as co-host of their LGBT media podcast, GayV Club. They tweet @akajustmerry and hope you ate something nice today.

When time travel was banned, the ban operated more like a fine: its illegality was little more than a bargain for the rich to make among themselves. The official stance of most countries was that there were certain states of emergency where its use might be deemed applicable. According to the United Nations, time travel had been used four times since its inception at the turn of the century. The Universal Protocol deemed the details of the four incidents classified, with the only concrete detail known being that time travel was approved in each instance by recommendation of the World Health Organisation.

Like most people, Ardelia Paves knew that this admission to only four incidents of time travel use was bullshit. Since the turn of the century, cases of what they now called Juvenile Dementia had skyrocketed. People young and old were wandering around with memories no-one else had, asking after people who had never lived, asking directions to towns no map had ever carried. Even the movies, her nan said, were not the ones she remembered.

Of all the missing memories and inexplicable adjustments braided through her life, it was this sentiment from her nan, tossed lazily into a sweaty Saturday afternoon two weeks ago in the kitchen, that echoed in Ardelia’s head.

‘All them old movies,’ Nan had tutted, ‘never had any Blackfellas in ’em, and if they did it wasn’t pretty – or it was paint,’ she added, darkly.

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