Nebula Awards Showcase 2016 (2016)
“SAM J. MILLER Sam J. Miller’s fiction has been nominated for the Nebula Award and the Theodore Sturgeon Award, was long-listed for the Hugo Award, and has won the Shirley Jackson Award. “We Are the Cloud” was published in Lightspeed.
Me and Case met when someone slammed his head against my door, so hard I heard it with my earphones in and my Game Boy cranked up loud. Sad music from Mega Man 2 filled my head and then there was this thud like the world stopped spinning for a second. I turned ...the thing off and flipped it shut, felt its warmth between my hands. Slipped it under my pillow. Nice things need to stay secret at Egan House, or they’ll end up stolen or broken. Old and rickety as it was, I didn’t own anything nicer.
I opened my door. Some skinny thug had a bloody-faced kid by the shirt.
“What,” I said, and then “what,” and then “what the,” and then, finally, “hell?”
I barked the last word, tightening all my muscles at once.MoreLess
Me and Case met when someone slammed his head against my door, so hard I heard it with my earphones in and my Game Boy cranked up loud. Sad music from Mega Man 2 filled my head and then there was this thud like the world stopped spinning for a second. I turned ...the thing off and flipped it shut, felt its warmth between my hands. Slipped it under my pillow. Nice things need to stay secret at Egan House, or they’ll end up stolen or broken. Old and rickety as it was, I didn’t own anything nicer.
I opened my door. Some skinny thug had a bloody-faced kid by the shirt.
“What,” I said, and then “what,” and then “what the,” and then, finally, “hell?”
I barked the last word, tightening all my muscles at once.MoreLess
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