Palimpsest by Catherynne M. Valente

Author:Catherynne M. Valente [Valente, Catherynne M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, azw3
Tags: Fiction, Fantasy, General, Fantasy Fiction, Contemporary, Urban Life, Bookbinders, Locksmiths, Girls, Erotic Stories, Erotic Fiction, Beekeepers
ISBN: 9780553385762
Google: 01b4YGhdswMC
Amazon: 0553385763
Publisher: Spectra
Published: 2009-02-23T06:00:00+00:00

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A ripple of fear and despair moves through the rice paddies, and Sei sees one girl with long braids fling herself from a great height, only to be caught up by a solicitous handhold. She hangs there by the waist, in misery, weeping.

The Third Rail offers no comment, but shakes her head in untouchable sorrow. She guides Sei through the fields, the glowing green grain which is so bright she suffers sunspots in her vision.

“I’m sorry,” she says to the vil agers with their long-handled ladles. “Please forgive me, please slake my thirst.” She reaches out for their water and they lean toward her, keen and terrible hope like welts on their faces. She sips; they col apse in relief, and as the carriage door closes behind her she can hear the beginnings of a festival, music like water spil ing, and a boy’s high, reedy voice singing a psalm above the pounding of drums. She knows she wil refuse nothing else. She drinks and she can hardly feel them anymore, the phantom others, who drink wine like tiger’s blood when she drinks water. They are so far from her.

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