Something woke Andy from his sound sleep, nestled in her wings, in her arms. A tread on Craig’s inviolable soil, someone afoot on his brother.Slowly, he got himself loose of Mimi and sat up and looked around.The golem standing before him was small, and its eyes glowed red. It bent over and set something down on the earth, a fur-wrapped bundle of smoked meat.It nodded at him. He nodded back.“Thank you,” he said.Mimi put her hand on his calf. “Is it okay?”“It’s right,” he said. “Just as it was meant to be.”He returned to her arms and they kissed. “No falling in love,” she said.“Perish the thought,” he said.She bit his lip and he bit hers and they kissed again, and then he was asleep, and at peace.
Something woke Andy from his sound sleep, nestled in her wings, in her arms. A tread on Craig’s inviolable soil, someone afoot on his brother.
Slowly, he got himself loose of Mimi and sat up and looked around.
The golem standing before him was small, and its eyes glowed red. It bent over and set something down on the earth, a fur-wrapped bundle of smoked meat.
It nodded at him. He nodded back.
“Thank you,” he said.
Mimi put her hand on his calf. “Is it okay?”
“It’s right,” he said. “Just as it was meant to be.”
He returned to her arms and they kissed. “No falling in love,” she said.
“Perish the thought,” he said.
She bit his lip and he bit hers and they kissed again, and then he was asleep, and at peace.
BioCanadian-bornCory Doctorowis the European Affairs coordinator for theElectronic Frontier Foundation. He is the coeditor of the popular weblogBoing Boingwith millions of visitors every month. He won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer at the 2000 Hugo awards and his novelDown and Out in the Magic Kingdomwon the Locus Award for Best First Novel the same year that his short story collectionA Place So Foreign and Eight Morewon the Sunburst Award for best Canadian science fiction book. His other books includeEastern Standard Tribe) and Rapture of the Nerds (with Charles Stross).Join my mailing listfor infrequent notices of books, articles, stories and appearances.
Canadian-bornCory Doctorowis the European Affairs coordinator for theElectronic Frontier Foundation. He is the coeditor of the popular weblogBoing Boingwith millions of visitors every month. He won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer at the 2000 Hugo awards and his novelDown and Out in the Magic Kingdomwon the Locus Award for Best First Novel the same year that his short story collectionA Place So Foreign and Eight Morewon the Sunburst Award for best Canadian science fiction book. His other books includeEastern Standard Tribe) and Rapture of the Nerds (with Charles Stross).
Join my mailing listfor infrequent notices of books, articles, stories and appearances.
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