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Eliot Fintushel: Izzy and the Father of
Terror
First appeared in Asimov's Science
Fiction, July 1997. Nominated for Best
Novella.

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He who feels punctured
Must once have been a bubble.

тАУLao Tze (trans. Witter Bynner)



ONE



1. A Hole in My Mind

I was thumbing through New Mexico with
nothing, headed nowhere, when I fell in
with a shaman named Shaman who pricked a
hole in my mind. A little prick it was,
but everything gushed in through it, and
everything spilled out. Suddenly, I could
not tell the difference between myself and
others or between my body and the rest of
the world.

"DonтАЩt be afraid, Mel," Shaman said. I was
very afraid. We were sitting inside a long
canvas tent, the communal kitchen of the
Space People. All the other Space People
were asleep. They had picked me up outside
of Albuquerque and driven me out onto the
desert to their little spread. Because
Shaman liked me, they had picked me up.
Even though there were Chicanos in those

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