“So I heard. Audrey is next, but she won’t let go of the cables and she won’t run. More than half the population. You couldn’t breathe without the possibility of sucking in some tiny innocent from the air.
Paul Park, “Ghosts Doing the Orange Dance (The Parke Family Scrapbook Number IV),” F&SF, January/February. Believe it or not—even on a world as murky as this—I think they’re photosynthesising. ”“Hanh—” It’s not that, Dac Kien wanted to say. The war would end, the Esperigans would follow, and in a few generations they would both be eaten up by bureaucracy and standards and immigration.
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