“The armies are irrelevant,” Tawus said. Through life, they would be second-class citizens, consistently failing to accomplish their duties to their ancestors; in death, they would be spurned, forgotten—gone as if they had never been. We do not force our citizens to worship savage old myths…”“You force them to be silent! You punish those who would worship the God of their fathers. He was suddenly aware of her hand on his arm.
Marlaina Gray, “Worlds Apart,” Strange Horizons, May 17. Looking out, I saw scrub woods and weedy meadows, dotted with the ruins of McMansions and shopping malls. He could tell the trail was coming close to the river by the way the trees began to thin. ”“Not in our lifetimes,” Gaunt said.
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