"What Used to Be Good Still Is" by Emma Bull

First published in Firebirds Rising, ed. Sharyn November, Firebird 2006. Now available in And Other Stories by Emma Bull and Will Shetterly, an ebook and a trade paperback from all fine and some not-so-fine booksellers.

What Used to Be Good Still Is

Emma Bull
Porphyry is a volcanic rock. Maybe that's why it happened. Maybe it was because the hill that became a pit was named Guadalupe, for the Virgin of Guadalupe, who appeared in a vision to a Mexican peasant a long time ago. Maybe it's beca...