Emma Lindsay's "blinks" are becoming worse. She "blinks" into the minds of other people, and lives their lives in a half-remembered daze. When she writes her short story "White Space," detailing how her blinks feel, she becomes deeply troubled when a half-finished novel by a dead author surfaces, and it seems exactly identical to her story. She wonders if she has blinked into the dead author's head--and what that means about her own identity and life.