Finder by Suzanne Palmer

Author:Suzanne Palmer
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: DAW
Published: 2019-04-01T23:00:00+00:00

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Mother Vahn is standing in front of him, smaller than he remembers in her bulky suit. He thinks this has not happened, that this is a dream, but he’s not sure. When Mother speaks, she has Mari’s voice. “What the hell is your problem?” she asks.

“People are my problem,” he tells her. “I don’t want to be a hero.”

“Why not?”

“Because when I’m gone, I don’t want to leave any trace I was ever here!” he shouts. “I don’t want to leave behind people who will miss me, or need me, or who will pick up broken bits of my life to mourn over. I just want to be gone, like—” Like water, closing over my head. “Just gone.”

“Gone is the coward’s way out,” she says, and she fades back into the darkness. Even the crickets seem muted, distant now.

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