LIFE
OF A CYBERNAUT
Ian Fletcher
Ian Fletcher
I am a cybernaut existing in virtual reality; a netizen, not a citizen. Social media my ersatz society connected in permanent disconnection. The me yet not me; a digital spirit soulless every moment recorded, photographed, posted, projected, commented on abstracting at the very point of potential experience a double take. All events non-events reproduced in public narcissism. Self-reflecting simulacrums of consciousness traces remaining buried in vast databases hosting. Infinite seas of information that when I disintegrate and die who never really lived will preserve electronic fragments of a pseudo being that never attained identity.
Born and raised in
Cardiff, Wales, Ian has an MA in English from Oxford University. He lives in
Taiwan with his wife, two daughters and cat. He teaches English in a high
school. He has had poems and short stories published in Duane’s PoeTree, Tuck
Magazine, Best Poetry, The Ekphrastic Review, 1947 A Literary Journal,
Spillwords Press, Dead Snakes, Your One Phone Call, Schlock! Webzine,
Short-story.me, Literary Yard, Indian Periodical, Anotherealm, Under the Bed, A
Story In 100 Words, Poems and Poetry, Friday Flash Fiction, The Drabble, and in
various anthologies.
