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First appeared in Asimov’s Science Fiction, August 1997. Nominated
ated stories
for Best Short Story.
From Asimov's

Echea, by
Kristine Kathryn
Rusch
I am nothing and nobody; atoms that have learned to look at Fortune and
themselves; dirt that has learned to see the awe and the majesty of the Misfortune, by
universe. Lisa Goldstein
Izzy and the
The day the hover-transports arrived in the refugee camps, huge
Father of Terror,
windowless shells of titanium floating on electrostatic cushions, the
by Eliot
day faceless men took the ragged little girl that was me away from the
Fintushel
narrow, blasted valley that had once been Salzburg to begin a new life
Lethe, by Walter
on another continent: that is the true beginning of my life. What came
Jon Williams
before then is almost irrelevant, a sequence of memories etched as
Standing Room
with acid into my brain, but with no meaning to real life.
Only, by Karen
Joy Fowler
Sometimes I almost think that I can remember my parents. I remember
Winter Fire, by
them not by what was, but by the shape of the absence they left
Geoffrey A.
behind. I remember yearning for my mother’s voice, singing to me
Landis
softly in Japanese. I cannot remember her voice, or what songs she
might have sung, but I remember so vividly the missing of it, the hole
From Analog
that she left behind.
Aurora in Four
My father I remember as the loss of something large and warm and
Voices, by
infinitely strong, smelling of–of what? I don’t remember. Again, it is the
Catherine Asaro