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and hot sands stretching away into a burning, lonely nothingness.Slowly, as if underwater, as if someone else has been given run of herlimbs, Sophia unties her own hair and begins to comb it with the great bonebrush.Tears float into the crescents of her eyes, and she does not know why.
IDARED8. The front and back yards are to be used for leisure and ornamentation only. Flowers and hedges are acceptable ifwell-maintained and not allowed to obstruct sight lines into the interior of the property in order to ensure that all activityremains clearly visible from outside the home. No vegetable plantings or other agricultural activity is permitted.9. It is forbidden to construct outbuildings for the purposes of industry such as beekeeping, the milling of grain or thetanning of hides, beermaking, soapmaking, cheesemaking, pottery, weaving, small vehicle repair, dancing, or other.
Page 2 and 3: Begin ReadingTable of ContentsAbout
Page 4 and 5: For Kris, Cylia, and SarahTurtles a
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Page 14 and 15: EMPIREMrs. Lyon lounges grandly on
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Page 18 and 19: “What did she do? The criminal, I
Page 20 and 21: “We’re all happy, Maestro,” M
Page 22 and 23: SNOWSWEET10. Holiday displays and o
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Page 26 and 27: her stomach floods itself with acid
Page 28 and 29: CAMEOThe moon melts in through the
Page 30 and 31: of them, strolling the parks, check
Page 32 and 33: “No,” she gasps. “Never. I lo
Page 34 and 35: GALAThe night dazzles Sophia.Firefl
Page 36 and 37: of Bliss to Come unfolds onstage as
Page 38 and 39: sauce on the earth. But when Sophia
Page 40 and 41: BRAEBURNThe house lies dark on a da
Page 42 and 43: But Sophia didn’t. She still does
Page 44 and 45: BLACK TWIGSophia runs until her bre
Page 46 and 47: salesman? Is there something you la
Page 48 and 49: “NO,” she screams in his face,
Page 50 and 51: “I lied because he would have mad
Page 52 and 53: “Ask me,” he says in defeat.
Page 54 and 55: JUBILEESophia reassembles her house
Page 56 and 57: and the Lord God my Father breathed
Page 58 and 59: “Your Father is my Father too. He
Page 60 and 61: Eat it, you fucking pig, eat it.But
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ALSO BYCATHERYNNE M. VALENTEThe Lab
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Prix Imaginales. Valente has also b
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