I woke at dawn on the holiday, so my grandmother put me to work polishing Mama’s army boots.
“Try not to let her see them,” Nana warned me. I already knew.
Sarah Pinsker
Sarah Pinsker is the author of the novelette “In Joy, Knowing the Abyss Behind,” winner of the 2014 Sturgeon Award and 2013 Nebula Award finalist, and 2014 Nebula finalist “A Stretch of Highway Two Lanes Wide.” Her fiction has appeared in Asimov’s, Strange Horizons, Fantasy & Science Fiction, and Lightspeed, and in anthologies including Long Hidden, Fierce Family, and The Future Embodied. She is also a singer/songwriter and has toured nationally behind three albums; a fourth is forthcoming. In the best of all timelines, she lives with her wife and dog in Baltimore, Maryland. She can be found online at sarahpinsker.com and on Twitter @sarahpinsker.
