Author

Mary Berman

Mary Berman is a writer of science fiction and fantasy. She earned her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Mississippi and her BA from the Writing Seminars program at Johns Hopkins University. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in such venues as Cicada, Fireside, and now Daily Science Fiction! In her spare time, she practices taekwondo and antagonizes her cat. Find her online at mtgberman.com.

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Bridges

The lieutenant is swallowing. "So, sir. You know The Wall." The Wall is a ten-foot-high, two-foot-thick slab of iron-spiked, barbed-wire-topped concrete, spanning the jagged border between the nations of Grattland and Niai. The Grattish built it, and the Commander, a proud Gratt…