MAGGIES,
by Nisi Shawl
Cindy Ward has long been publishing fiction with
Wildside Press’s magazines and anthologies—so
we recruited her to acquire some of her favorite
authors and stories for Black Cat Weekly. Here
is her first selection—a fabulous tale by
the incomparable Nancy Kress!
Tata’s skin was golden. Sometimes she let me help her feed and brush it. She showed me how my first worlday on New Bahama.
I was way off schedule. After a couple of hours I couldn’t stand to stay in my room, let alone in bed, pretending to sleep. I had m*********d all I wanted. My desk was on, but empty. No matter what my father said, I had to get up, run the small circuit of the station’s corridors.
Some were smoothly familiar, plasteen walls like any ship or tube. Others, where the station’s prefa
