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ORIGINALS
edited by Ellen Datlow




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Table of Contents


Barry B. Longyear: Silent Her .................................
Gavin J. Grant: Editing for Content ...........................
Howard Waldrop and Leigh Kennedy: One Horse Town
Steven Utley: Five Miles from Pavement ...................
A. R. Morlan: Cat in the Box ...................................
John W. Randal: Bad Animals ................................
Terry Dowling: The Lagan Fishers ............................
M. Shayne Bell: Refugees from Nulongwe ................
Gene Wolfe: Copperhead ........................................
Ian R. MacLeod: New Light on the Drake Equation ....
Simon Ings: Russian Vine ......................................
Jeffrey Ford: Floating in Lindrethool .........................
Michael Cassutt: Beyond the End of Time ................
Dave Hutchinson: Discreet Phenomena ...................
James P. Blaylock: His Own Backyard ....................
About the Authors ..................................................
About the Editor ....................................................
 Barry B. Longyear
SILENT HER

The light was lavender, the light was white, the light was red. When the light was white, they would come,
their heads hidden in black mists.
The one with the hard mouth would be there. Sometimes alone, sometimes with another, but always the
one with the hard mouth would come.
Hard Mouth brought the pain and the anger. Silent Her hated Hard Mouth. The light brought Hard Mouth.
Silent hated the light.
The white light would creep in through the window, climb the wall with the spots of yellow and blue, and
Silent would be afraid as Silent's eyes filled with tears, smearing the light.
Silent loved the dark and clung to it. The dark was safe. It was solitude, aloneness, quiet, an absence of