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Step two was finding the freezers and making sure they were running properly. They drank whatever hooch they could find—raiding other gangs if necessary—and fired guns into the air and shouted at the moon until dawn. “Hi there Frank,” Dottie said, grabbing a handhold and supporting Warren by a bunched ruff behind his neck. This would be book number seven.

Yoon Ha Lee, “Between Two Dragons,” Clarkesworld, April. A wet voice curses. Nakada found herself thinking of the young nurse’s round face and tanned muscular limbs; for all that solidity she’d had in life, her blackened bones were surprisingly light. I am a spirit, not a geneticist, but surely the species has gone through a genetic bottleneck.