Asimov's Science Fiction: April/may 2014

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McDermott | 10266 words Joe M. McDermott is the author of five novels and two short story collections, including Last Dragon, Never Knew Another, Women and Monsters, and Maze. His first story for Asimov's takes a look at the complex persona of...
    My earliest memory was waking up with my arm aching from the new shunt, and a cat was at the foot of my bed giving birth to kittens. I sat up and watched the cat. Dolores, my step-grandmother, had more cats than anyone could count, plus a small her
...d of goats. We lived with her as long as I could remember, but I know we didn't go out there until after my mom shot my dad and he went to prison. I don't remember that. I remember waking up and Dolores' cat was having kittens at the foot of my bed. It was a grey tabby cat, nameless and lean when it wasn't pregnant, and I watched the cat, mesmerized, while the kittens emerged from it. The mother cat licked their faces clean, and even swallowed much of the afterbirth. I was too young to be horrified by it, because I didn't really know what was happening.MoreLess

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