These Lifeless Things by Premee Mohamed

Author:Premee Mohamed
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Science Fiction
Publisher: Rebellion Publishing Ltd

I HAVE TO find that park. How many old parks near cemeteries are there with big trees torn down? I found a very likely candidate on the drone imagery, but I can’t find the guard tower. There are a lot of pigeons here, though. And magpies, which we have back home, but not so tamely brash. In particular they like Victor, and follow him around not wheedling scraps but keeping up a burbling commentary as if they are trying to explain what happened to the trees. The genetic memory of corvids: they’re supposed to be smart, aren’t they? I wonder what they remember. What they’ve passed down.

The soil is still good here; even I can see that. Soft, crumbly, not dark brown but black, as black as asphalt. Privately I pocket a bagful of it, and some of Victor’s weird seeds, as we walk. Maybe I will grow them in my little apartment when I get back home next week.

At the candidate park I think I see some evidence of cultivation, not just the ground broken but furrows still remaining, but it’s so muddled from the decades of weeds and neglect and saplings pushing up that it’s hard to tell. Instead of asking Darian to look at the data, I ask Victor. I can’t quite put my finger on it. Since Darian is surely up to something, I feel like I can trust Victor a little more. Even though he too thinks I’m a romance writer with my head in the clouds.

The ‘soft’ sciences, my ass. I’m corroborating the actual history of this city and that’s what they’d call me.

I don’t know, maybe they’re right.

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