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Then he turned to Lucas, saying, “The call was a glitch. “Berenika!”“What?” Berenika looks at her friends. We took the backup after you were already unconscious. Her short fiction—which has appeared in most of the major markets, including Asimov’s Science Fiction an

She pressed the phone hard to her ear, trying to catch every nuance, any suspicious change in his tone of voice. * * *It takes him at least two hours to finish changing at the best of times. And it cost you one percent of the street price on the place. These were stories, and stories were a currency in and of itself.