BCS 020: Blighted Heart
By Aliette de Bodard
Issue #23, August 13, 2009

I felt the first cut like a violation. Pain burst in my chest, would not cease. I screamed and screamed until my voice was raw. No. No. I never asked for this! I saw a priest lift out a bloody, pulsating thing dizzyingly high above me, and a sensation of emptiness spread from the hole in my chest and swallowed me.

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Aliette de Bodard lives and works in Paris, where she has a day job as a computer engineer. In addition to four stories in Beneath Ceaseless Skies, her fiction has appeared in Realms of Fantasy and Asimov's. Her first novel, Servant of the Underworld, was released by Angry Robot/Harper Collins in January 2010. She has been a Writers of the Future winner and a Campbell Award finalist.  Visit http://www.aliettedebodard.com for more information.

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