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So I called Wade. I felt a bit hazy when I went up to bed. “You’re leaving,” he said after a moment. ”* * *The sun sparkled on the kantohanki: snow with a frozen surface, strong enough to carry a man on skis and a bear.

”“I’ll buy you a new phone,” Wade says. The ripples spread out over the lake. Medicine Show, Writers of the Future, Coyote Wild, Electric Velocipede, The Immersion Book of SF, Fictitious Force, Shimmer, and elsewhere. “Better hope your baby is a boy.