Miriam actually tried to lasso a spider as it crawled past us. Be careful. Mary Robinette Kowal, “For Want of a Nail,” Asimov’s, September. The mundane chore, performed in a bright island of light around the lifetime’s small galley, was oddly cheering.
In the doorway, she hesitated. It was like a cave, brightly lit and with its walls crusted with data displays. He had not done the thing he had been planning, and now he might die anyway, but there was a chance and if he survived this he would have nothing in the world to be ashamed of. Lucas doesn’t know which one to use, but his plan, much as he plans anything, is to work Harris into a numb half-beaten state and then take him around and jump through the brush, heading north again.
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