Carrion Comfort

by Dan Simmons

“Miz Fuller,” corrected Gentry. “From what the neighbors tell us, she was one of Charleston’s grand old spinsters. And that title of Miz has been used around here for almost two hundred years, Professor.

Then, when the rates went down,

stained glass windows created by Marc Chagall.

Saul had seen the rash of demonic-children entertainments as a symptom of deeper underlying fears and hatreds; the “me-generation’s” inability to shift into the role of responsible parenthood at the cost of losing their own interminable childhood, the transference of guilt from divorce—

Nothing was wasted in the Reich. Only people.