Child Garden by Geoff Ryman

Author:Geoff Ryman
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: SciFi-Masterwork, Science Fiction, Romance, Fantasy
ISBN: 9780575076907
Publisher: Gollancz
Published: 1988-12-31T13:00:00+00:00

Rose Ella's father went off one summer morning early, in a wagon train. He and seven other men were off to Cumbria to fetch new stone. All the Row was gathered to see them off. Everyone waved. Milena had come early to wave as well. Rose Ella wept, though she couldn't say why. She had some kind of bad feeling. Something awful could happen on the road to Cumbria.

For the next month, there were still dances in the Row, with fewer fathers to dance with. The music became sadder. Milena remembered Mala, playing her fiddle. The fiddle was tucked under chin, and her eyes were faraway, remembering, and the sound of the fiddle was high and sad and sweet, coaxing out the heart of the old songs.

It was the music of home. Milena felt she had found a family, a people, a place. She thought she had found a future as well.

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