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Harwen nods. He is grateful for that phrase: fugue state. An altered consciousness. Another self. The thought allows him to excise the last few days from his memory, to put it in a chamber where it can be contained: that was not me!
Without realizing it, I grabbed at Mama’s sleeve, the way I used to when I was younger and our shuttle hit some unmapped debris or popped a fuse unexpectedly. It was the kind of reflexive gesture that didn’t mean much, but the stare Mama sent over her shoulder as she shook me off was severe and unmistakable.
Thanh Lan wanted the order back. She wanted her home back. She wanted to be sitting in the kitchens again, listening to Mei go on and on. She wanted to have those barbed, frustrating conversations with Abbess Linh about the order's mission. And she knew she wasn't ever going to get any of that, but she could get something else: the satisfaction of saving the life of the order who had saved her own life.
Our 350th Issue! A special double-issue for BCS Science-Fantasy Month 6, featuring three bonus stories and science-fantasy cover art "Ancient Ones" by Jose Borges. At the Foot of the Dragon Stair by Aliette de Bodard. A Record of Our Meeting with the Grand Faerie Lord of Vast Space and Its Great Mysteries, Revised by A.T. Greenblatt. It Never Was by R.Z. Held. Empty Appendages by William Broom. To People Who’d Never Known Good by Thomas Ha. BCS 290: At the Foot of the Dragon Stair by Aliette de Bodard. BCS Audio Vault 034: Gennesaret by Phoenix Alexander.
That dying anchor said some mysterious ‘he’ was looking for her. Chakatie tried to think of who that could be. When she’d been an anchor in charge of her own land, she’d thought she’d been even-handed. But traveling with the day-fellows had revealed to her the painful reality of being on the receiving end of the grains’ anger and punishments—pains she’d once inflicted on far too many people to count.