Permanence

by Colette Phair

Imagine a world where everything - your coffee table, your pet, your lover, even you - needs to be backed up in order to survive. Those objects and beings who aren't revert back to their old selves when last saved. That's the world Jeth and I live in. The monks are trying to take everything from us, but I'm going to hold on as tight as I need to - to him, and to the world I know.


“Wonderful... A marvelous story… has some lines and images that are priceless.” - Zack Wentz , author of The Garbage Man and the Prostitute


“It’s so weird.” - David Barnes , editor of Strangers in Paris , while running a literary critique group in the Parisian bookstore Shakespeare & Company

33 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 2020

About the author

Out now: You Are Not What You Seem, a story collection, at https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08L8RG5PF/...

My novel Nightmare in Silicon won the Chiasmus Press First Book Competition and received a blurb from V For Vendetta author Alan Moore, who called me "A strong new voice that demands and deserves to be listened to."

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My short fiction has been published alongside Joyce Carol Oates, Neil Gaiman, and Edgar Allan Poe. I’ve published articles and stories with Bitch Magazine and Women Studies Quarterly, and I've also written marketing and fundraising materials for a number of nonprofits. I have a master's in market research and consumer behavior from IE Madrid and a bachelor's in politics from UC Santa Cruz. I've lived in France, Mexico, Spain, Cameroon, Norway, and the San Francisco Bay Area.