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millions. Everything will turn out all right for everyone." She stares at me for several seconds. "Except
Jain. You bastard."
We have our congruencies.
The package comes later, along with a stiff legal letter from a firm of attorneys. The substance of the
message is this: "Jain Snow wished you to have possession of this. She informed you prior to her demise
of her desires; please carry them out accordingly." The packet contains a chrome cylinder with a screw
cap. The cylinder contains ashes; ashes and a few bone fragments. I check. Jain's ashes, unclaimed by
father, friends, or employer.
I drive west, away from the soiled towers of the strip-city. I drive beyond the colstrip pits and into
the mountains until the paved highway becomes narrow asphalt and then rutted earth and then only a
trace, and the car can go no further. With the metal cylinder in one hand I flee on foot until I no longer
hear sounds of city or human beings.
At last the trees end and I climb over bare mountain grades. I rest briefly when the pain in my lungs is
too sharp to ignore. At last I reach the summit.
I scatter Jain's ashes on the wind.
Then I hurl the empty cylinder down toward the timberline; it rolls and clatters and finally is only a
distant glitter on the talus slope.
"Jain!" I scream at the sky until my voice is gone and vertigo destroys my balance. The echoes die. A
s Jain died.
I lie down unpeacefullyтАФexhaustedтАФand sleep, and my dreams are of weathered stone. And I
awake empty.


From Competition 15:
Examples of sf titles that have been retranslated back into English after
appearing in a French history of SF.
I Am Crying, Said the Policeman, PHILIP K. DICK
He Has a Hole in His Head and His Teeth Glow in the Dark, ROGER ZELAZNY
Nocturnal and Diurnal Animals, ROGER ZELAZNY
R Is for Spaceship, RAY BRADBURY
The Tin Men Go to Sleep, ISAAC ASIMOV
All Animals Are Vegetables, CLIFFORD SIMAK
тАФCambridge University Science Fiction Society

A Box of Scruples, JAMES BLISH
Dendrites, LESTER DEL REY
 Get Out of My Way! Get Out of My Way!, HARRY HARRISON
A For Whatever, DAMON KNIGHT
Humaner, THEODORE STURGEON
A Serious Undertaking, HAL CLEMENT
-Chris Riesbeck

Towards Here Is Coming An Evil Thing, RAY BRADBURY
Rascal Moon, ALOIS BUDRYS
To Your Broadcast Bodies, Get Yourselves, PHILIP JOSE FARMER
Tales of A Moribund Bird, HARLAN ELLISON
Farther Than Apollo, BARRY MALZBERG
-Michael Bishop

Sturgeon Lives Comfortably, THEODORE STURGEON