This story was published in Lightspeed Magazine and included in the Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2025 anthology.
This story is a challenge to the reader — explicitly from the narrative voice as well as from the author: try to hold two things in your brain at the same time.
The story is told–mostly–in two columns. One of which is the same all the way through; the other tells more of the story of a species that is living fast and going extinct even as you read, and which is trying to get you to perceive life the way they do, and to remember them.