Harrison Bergeron. French Translation from Avice Robitaille. Hindi Translation by Ashwin.Urdu Translation by RealMSRussian translation THE YEAR WAS 2081, and everybody was finally equal. They weren't only equal before God and the law. They were equal every which way. Nobody was smarter than anybody else. Nobody was better looking than anybody else. Heads Will Roll by Lish McBride. Lena’s not your typical animal trainer.
And when she and her unicorn partner, Steve, decide to enter a fight, it’s definitely not your typical fight…. Enjoy a new original story from Lish McBride, the author of Hold Me Closer, Necromancer and its sequel Necromancing the Stone. This short story was acquired for Tor.com by Henry Holt editor Noa Wheeler. The warehouse air burned along my skin after the crisp snap of the outside weather.
The new warmth didn’t make me loosen my jacket. A skinny reed of a man with a whiteboard sat at a table in the middle of the room, pointedly ignoring everyone. “Lena,” I said. He grabbed a list to his left and scanned. “You with Phantom?” I nodded, shoving my hands into my pockets. The man frowned at his sheet. Again, I nodded. “Are you sure he’s going to fight?”
I kept my gaze on him, solid and heavy. “Because sometimes, they refuse,” he continued. “Phantom will fight.” “Good. “Yes, sir.” The man glared at me, I think searching for sarcasm in the “sir.” The New York Times > Books > Interactive Feature > A Literary Map of Manhattan. Street Fiction: Urban Fiction Author Interviews, Urban Fiction News, and Urban Fiction Book Reviews.