From the day
Perspective: The Future Historian · Tactile
The heavy wool of my morning coat chafes against my neck as I stir a gritty slurry of instant coffee, marveling at the chemical tang of progress. On the sideboard, the newly polished toaster gleams, its glowing wires promising a future where heat is harnessed by the flick of a switch rather than the soot of a coal range. Some blockhead downstairs just discharged a pistol, yet the new silencer reduced the lethal crack to a mere heavy thud against the floorboards. I thumb a smooth Rook card, pondering the hundred-million-dollar subway proposal that will soon pulse like a steel artery beneath my very feet.