Recursing by Josh Pearce

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Narrated by computer

Recursing by Josh Pearce
Illustration by Sue Babcock
you equal me
// I’ve declared this before

// I wish I could

function
Remember( love )
            if ( love.memory is true )
                        remove next memory

                        <<who are you?
                        Remember( love )
            else return me
            ;

<<Hello, world

// I wish I could
Remember( you );

>>Hello, world
>>who are you?
>>who are you?
>>who are you?
>>who are you?

BIO: Josh Pearce is an assistant editor and film reviewer at Locus magazine with poetry and short fiction in Analog, Asimov’s, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and Clarkesworld. Find him online at fictionaljosh.com or on Twitter: @fictionaljosh.