Kieran McCaffrey
@kieranm.bsky.social
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Scottish spec fic writer. Words forthcoming/in Fusion Fragment, Kaleidotrope, [RECORDED], Baubles From Bones, and many fine others. Guitars in Cancel The Astronauts. Reader for The Daily Tomorrow. linktr.ee/kieranmccaffrey
![a black and white illustration of a person standing in an attic in front of artwork easels; the illustration is duplicated multiple times (smaller and smaller); yellow banners with black text read OPPORTUNITY WINDOW
A Time Loop Anthology
[artwork credit: The Attic Window (1920) by Mildred McMillen]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:urwbiqpcjwskrgmvxjfgddpj/bafkreihevqocfdzfbdmzxikjdyl37v5ehh65v5pnwah7qcl74mjmuxv4k4)
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Wide shot of the BRITISH MUSEUM. There are suggestions of fascism around the streets - tanks, barricades, an Orwellian 'Big Brother'-style poster on a wall. A voice of a TOUR GUIDE emanates from the museum:
TOUR GUIDE:
So the Tapestry tells acrucial chapter of our nation's history...
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[Cut to interior of museum. A long Bayeaux-style TAPESTRY is on display, and the Tour Guide is speaking to a tour group]
TOUR GUIDE [smiling]:
How modern fascist Britain was created.
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TOUR GUIDE:
The Tapestry begins here with the 2008 Crash, then austerity, then the AI Crash...
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TOUR GUIDE:
...and by the end of the room it's just full-on fash.
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CHILD IN TOUR GROUP [gesturing to the tapestry]:
What's this middle bit?
TOUR GUIDE:
This is the 2026 Battle of Legitimate Concerns
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TOUR GUIDE:
[show a reporter standing next to the Dover protests]
Here's the media saying the government have got to do something about the legitimate concerns...
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CHILD:
...About the failure of capitalism?
TOUR GUIDE:
No about brown people on boats
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CHILD:
[pointing at boats crossing the sea on the tapestry]
Are these boats the mega-dinghies?
TOUR GUIDE:
Not all of them
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[we see one of the boats is a giant yacht]
TOUR GUIDE:
That one's a superyacht,
carrying money from the American fascists to the British ones.
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TOUR GUIDE:
You see really it's as much a story of convergence as it is of conflict.
[An alarm sounds in the museum]
DING DING DING DING
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TOUR GUIDE:
Ok, tour over everyone
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TOUR GUIDE:
It's time for the Two Minute Hate!
[They all leave the museum]
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