Living in Threes (30 page)
Authors: Judith Tarr
Tags: #Science Fiction & Fantasy, #Teen & Young Adult, #Fantasy, #Science Fiction, #Coming of Age, #Aliens, #Time Travel
That’s what we were. We’d changed something because of it. We’d helped save Meru’s world.
I still wanted to scream and howl and throw rocks at the walls because I wanted my Mom back. That wouldn’t let up any time soon. But I didn’t want to be dead with her, whatever that was in between the me I was and the me I’d be when I was Meru. This world, with sand in my shoes and horse smell in my hair and a mosquito taking a big, bloody bite out of my elbow, was—is—the best thing there is.
That’s why Meritre’s people wanted to take everything, body and all, into the afterlife. They weren’t about death and mummies and tombs. They were about life. They loved it so much, they never wanted to let it go.
Tears wouldn’t stop running down my face. They blurred the moon until it was all one wide white glow across eight thousand years. And there was Bonnie right in the middle, whiter and stronger than anything.
I hugged her tight. I hugged the life that was in all of us. Then I went to deal with all the things you have to deal with when someone you love dies, because that’s part of life, too. It’s the price you pay for being alive.
Copyright & Credits
Living in Threes
Judith Tarr
Book View Café Edition November 20, 2012
ISBN: 978-1-61138-208-2
Copyright © 2012 Judith Tarr
Cover illustration & interior illustration by Emily Trower
Cover design by Dave Smeds
BVC Production team: Sherwood Smith, Julianne Lee, Vonda N. McIntyre
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About the Author
Judith Tarr
holds a PhD in Medieval Studies from Yale. She is the author of over three dozen novels and many works of short fiction. She has been nominated for the World Fantasy Award, and has won the Crawford Award for
The Isle of Glass
and its sequels. She lives near Tucson, Arizona, where she raises and trains Lipizzan horses.
Other Books by Judith Tarr
Novels
Ars Magica
Alamut
The Dagger and the Cross
A Wind in Cairo
Lord of the Two Lands
The Hound and the Falcon
The Isle of Glass
The Golden Horn
The Hounds of God
Nonfiction
Writing Horses: The Fine Art of Getting it Right
BVC Anthologies
Beyond Grimm
Breaking Waves
Brewing Fine Fiction
Ways to Trash Your Writing Career
Dragon Lords and Warrior Women
Rocket Boy and the Geek Girls
The Shadow Conspiracy
The Shadow Conspiracy
The Shadow Conspiracy II
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