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Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town

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By Cory Doctorow
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A young man named Alan settles into a modest house and becomes woven into his neighborhood's routines, delivering coffee, meeting neighbors, and observing everyday life. Everyday rhythms are unsettled by arrivals and departures that carry hints of the uncanny, altering relationships and prompting questions about family, belonging, and identity. The story mixes warm domestic detail with surreal, fable-like interruptions, moving through episodic encounters that blend humor, tenderness, and quiet unease. Through character interactions and small-town scenes, it examines how ordinary places absorb extraordinary events and how community ties are remade by the arrival and leaving of others.

Something woke Andy from his sound sleep, nestled in her wings, in her arms. A tread on Craig’s inviolable soil, someone afoot on his brother.

Slowly, he got himself loose of Mimi and sat up and looked around.

The golem standing before him was small, and its eyes glowed red. It bent over and set something down on the earth, a fur-wrapped bundle of smoked meat.

It nodded at him. He nodded back.

“Thank you,” he said.

Mimi put her hand on his calf. “Is it okay?”

“It’s right,” he said. “Just as it was meant to be.”

He returned to her arms and they kissed. “No falling in love,” she said.

“Perish the thought,” he said.

She bit his lip and he bit hers and they kissed again, and then he was asleep, and at peace.

Bio

Canadian-born Cory Doctorow is the European Affairs coordinator for the Electronic Frontier Foundation. He is the coeditor of the popular weblog Boing Boing with millions of visitors every month. He won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer at the 2000 Hugo awards and his novel Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom won the Locus Award for Best First Novel the same year that his short story collection A Place So Foreign and Eight More won the Sunburst Award for best Canadian science fiction book. His other books include Eastern Standard Tribe) and Rapture of the Nerds (with Charles Stross).

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