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PodCastle 416: Braid of Days and Wake of Nights
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English - May 17, 2016 12:37 - 47.4 MB - ★★★★★ - 494 ratingsDrama Fiction Arts Books Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Author : E. Lily Yu Narrator : Khaalidah Muhammad-Ali Host : Jen R. Albert Audio Producer : Peter Wood Discuss on Forums First appeared in Fantasy and Science Fiction. Rated PG-13 Braid of Days and Wake of Nights by E. Lily Yu With an immaculate thumbnail, Julia peeled open the ziplock bag in her […]
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Author : E. Lily Yu
Narrator : Khaalidah Muhammad-Ali
Host : Jen R. Albert
Audio Producer : Peter Wood
First appeared in Fantasy and Science Fiction.
Rated PG-13
Braid of Days and Wake of Nights
by E. Lily Yu
With an immaculate thumbnail, Julia peeled open the ziplock bag in her lap. The coil of hair inside, wide as her thumb and nine feet long, was woven throughout with black and gold strands in equal proportion. When Vivian began chemo last May, her hair had skimmed the lower edge of her scapulae. Three weeks later, her purple stripes had rinsed to blonde, and she had not dyed them again. Vivian had smiled at Julia in the bathroom mirror, eyebrows high and brave, but after the first handful slithered to the floor, she handed the humming razor to Julia and covered her eyes.
“You do it,” she said.
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