Author

Sarah Goslee

Sarah Goslee is a mad scientist with a driving need to know everything. (Immortality may be required, but that is yet to be resolved.) She revels in learning new things and writing about them, whether as peer-reviewed science, popular science, or science fiction and fantasy. She is editor of ScienceinMyFiction.com, a weekly series on science-fictional science, and has published short stories about both zombies and unicorns.

http://scienceinmyfiction.com/

The Cries of the Dead and Dying

I never really loved her. I never loved her, but from the first moment I saw her I coveted her, desired her in the way the ivy desires the castle wall, or the oyster the pearl. I first saw her coming down the hill. Dust coated her bare feet and the tattered hem of her torn linen…