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Science Fiction Embracing- The-New By Benjamin Rosenbaum Embracing-The-New by Benjamin Rosenbaum Fictionwise www.F Copyright ©2004 by Benjamin Rosenbaum First published in Asimovs Science Fiction, January 2004 NOTICE: This ebook is licensed to the original purchaser only. Duplication or distribution to any person via email, floppy disk, network, print out, or any other means is a violation of International copyright law and subjects the violator to severe fines and/or imprisonment. This notice overrides the Adobe Reader permissions which are erroneous. This book cannot be legally lent or given to others. This ebook is displayed using 100% recycled electrons. Distributed by F 2 Embracing-The-New by Benjamin Rosenbaum The sun blazed, the wagon creaked and shuddered. Vru crouched near the masters canopy, his fur dripping with sweat. His Ghennungs crawled through his fur, seeking shade. Whenever one uprooted itself from his body, breaking their connection, he felt the sudden loss of memories, like a limb being torn away. Not for the first time, Vru was forced to consider his poverty. He had only five Ghennungs. Three had been with him from birth; another had been his fathers first; and the oldest had belonged to both his father and his grandfather. Once, when both of the older Ghennungs pulled their fangs out of him to shuffle across his belly, sixty years of memory— working stone, making love to his grandmother and his mother, worrying over apprenticeships and duels—were gone, an