tell your mama,
as she kneads her dough with floured hands,
Beth Cato
Beth Cato is the author of THE CLOCKWORK DAGGER series of steampunk fantasy novels from Harper Voyager. Her short fiction is in InterGalactic Medicine Show, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and Daily Science Fiction. She’s a Hanford, California native transplanted to the Arizona desert, where she lives with her husband, son, and requisite cat. Her website is BethCato.com.
Cogs
each morning she awoke as a cog