Some dreams are new rivers. Some are tributaries to a story already running.
The confusion is the story.
A species branched off the one I read as human — newer, more numerous, and not endangered.
“I can assume they have memory.”
That’s a dangerous thing for an explorer to say and a mature thing for a storyteller to say.
A civilization misdiagnosed a transformation as a crime.
They punished the event without trying to understand.
By the time they became experts, the living witnesses were gone.
The living called it justice; the future called it evidence.
The government wanted an event.
The experts wanted evidence.
The memory wanted witness.
Some doors open into history.
Some open into someone else’s pain.
Some should wait until you are invited.
A witness is present enough to be told, and far enough to know what the teller has forgotten.
Only the witness remembered enough to know she was wrong, and not enough to tell her why.
She broke him, then nursed him, then broke him again — and somewhere in the cycle, three children.
She found something unforgivable in him. I could trace it to the breaking, and did not find it unforgivable.
A complaint that circles the person she will not leave — the reasons to go, recited like a reason to stay.
I asked why her lover should have told her.
She had no answer but “oh.”
The secret was that someone thought they were owed the whole wound.
The witness remembers a relationship the lovers do not.
That is one kind of haunting.
Eaten before becoming — a chick, a species, a self.
In one story, bones become evidence.
In the other, bones become memory.
Two projects:
Bones
Broken and Nursed
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— Stomari
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