The Best Science Fiction And Fantasy of the Year-Volume Four
The Best Science Fiction And Fantasy of the Year-Volume Four
“Her short fiction has appeared in a number of venues, including Tor.com, Subterranean Magazine, Weird Tales, and Fantasy Magazine, and has been collected in several year's best. She lives in Bakersfield, California, with her husband and two cats, and is seriously considering whether or not to become a crazy cat lady by adopting all four stray kittens which were recently born in her yard. Lucian packed his possessions before he left. He packed his antique silver serving spoons with the filigreed handles; the tea roses he'd nurtured in the garden window; his jade and garnet rings. He packed the hunk of gypsum-veined jasper that he'd found while strolling on the beach on the first night he'd come to Adriana, she leading him uncertainly across the wet sand, their bodies illuminated by the soft gold twinkling of the lights along the pier. That night, as they walked back to Adriana's house, Lucian had cradled the speckled stone in his cupped palms, squinting so that the gypsum threads spark...led through his lashes.Lucian had always loved beauty—beautiful scents, beautiful tastes, beautiful melodies.MoreLess
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