Gardner Dozois - Morning Child

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MORNING CHILD

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Technology advances much more quickly than usual during times of war, and even the

technology that’s been developed previously has been kept very secret, so despite our

expectations World War III, if it should ever happen, would probably surprise most of us with

unforseen , even fantastic weapons. GardnerDozois realizes that, and in this very short story he

presents us with the results of a strange weapon indeed.

GardnerDozois is not only the editor of many science fiction anthologies but also the author of

numerous short stories, novel-ettes and novellas that are well worth reading, including those in

his collectionThe Visible Man.

The old house had been hit by something sometime during the war and mashed nearly flat. The front was

caved in as though crushed by a giant fist: wood pulped and splintered, beams protruding at odd angles

like broken fingers, the sec-ond floor collapsed onto the remnants of the first. The rubble of a chimney

covered everything with a red mortar blanket. On the right a gaping hole cross-sectioned the ruins, laying

bare all the strata of fused stone and plaster and charred wood-everything curling back on itself like the

lips of a gangrenous wound. Weeds had swarmed up the low hillside from the road and swept over the

house, wrapping the ruins in wildflowers and grapevines, softening the edges of destruc-tion with green.

Williams brought John here almost every day. They had lived here once, in this house, many years ago,

and although John’s memory of that time was dim, the place seemed to have pleasant associations for

him, in spite of its ruined condition. John was at his happiest here and would play contentedly with sticks

and pebbles on the shattered stone steps, or go whooping through the tangled weeds that had turned the

lawn into a jungle, or play-stalk in ominous circles around Williams while Williams worked at filling his

bags with blueberries, daylilies, Indian potatoes, dandelions, and other edible plants and roots.

Even Williams took a bittersweet pleasure in visiting the ruins, although coming here stirred memories

that he would rather have left undisturbed. There was a pleasant melancholy to the spot and something

oddly soothing about the mixture of mossy old stone and tender new green, a reminder of the inevitability

of cycles-life-in-death.death-in-life .

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