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 Marid Changes His Mind
by George Alec Effinger




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Copyright ©1989 George Alec Effinger

First published in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction
Magazine, May 1989


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 Marid Changes His Mind
by George Alec Effinger




We'd ridden for many days out the coast highway toward
Mauretania, the part of Algeria where I'd been born. In that
time, even at its lethargic pace, the broken-down old bus had
carried us from the city to some town forsaken by Allah
before it even learned what its name was. Centuries come,
centuries go: In the Arab world they arrive and depart loaded