____, “Pallbearer,” The Mammoth Book of Apocalyptic SF. I bend over the imprint and push my face almost to the ground, looking and smelling, using every channel of information I can. “It’s a mistake to think this ecology is complete. But there Delbert and I sat on the porch of Rosa’s house, drinking iced tea instead of whiskey or beer, two Indians with enough money to get by and good white educations.
’“That was the last thing the women said to me. There was no water now, of course, just a foot or so sometimes in winter. “Where are the boys?” Lucas says. But you’re quite right, you know, that I did just create a shell, and it was your rebellion that made it a world.
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