Woman Leaves Room

Reed, Robert. "Woman Leaves Room." Lightspeed: Year One." On line here.[1]

Monolog of sorts by a computer file, later "a copy of the file, filtered and enhanced according to the best tools available." A bit later — although time is problematic in this story — "What I am will be copied once more, but this time as a kind of light that can pierce dust and distance and might never end its travels across the galaxy and beyond." Finally the file comes to see ... probably himself as "nothing but a file with a name and a few rough qualities," but with sufficient being that it/he can start this sentence and others with "I am." And he/it can feel longings and love, making for a sharply-drawn, elegantly sentimental story set in both a non-space "room" of some sort of cyberspace and over intergalactic distances.

RDE, Initial Compiler, 19Jan20