They, too, needed me to save the farm. But we lived and made it back before ten-thirty, and the cops were waiting, and I’ve never been so happy to see them. If there was one unifying activity, one thing that brought everyone together, it was when the caretakers crowded into the commons, listenin ” Paolo slouches above us, unsure of what to do.
____, “Iteration,” Strange Horizons. Glowing tentacles squirmed past him, sucking carbon and metal from the rails and trees. By the time he clocked off on his first day, he had not caught up with the expected number of repairs, so he had even more to do on the second. He’s placed several different stories with several different Best of the Year series over the last couple of years, including this one.
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