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Spillage
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By Nancy Kress
Articles 8 January 2007
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27 September 2004
Columns It starts again. The
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Reprinted by permission; originally published in Thebaby begins to cough
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Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, April and choke.
1988.
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When the coach broke for the third time, the
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second coachman was flung sideways over the
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in the moonless darkness, over and over, brambles
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tearing at the velvet of his livery and whipping
across his face. He uttered no sound. There was anyone suspect, his
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mother told him. That
water at the bottom, a desultory and dirty little
stream: the coachman lay in it quietly, blinking in was the first rule she
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pain at the stars, blood trickling from one temple. taught him, and the
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A rat fell on top of him, squeaked once, and him here alone with It.
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feminine cry. It was not repeated, but after a while by Matthew Johnson
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the road above. The lady in the coach, or the
Pale as he was, it was
First Coachman himself— The sound receded hard to believe he
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and died, and no other took its place.
would never rise from
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this bed. Even in the
He lay in the ditch without moving, at first
frightened that some bone might have broken in the darkest times, she had
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