Din Ba Din
By Kate Macleod
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Sohaila never knows in the morning what the day will bring. Four babies desperate for attention or the long, empty days of a lonely widow?
Since she made that wish for more time her days come at random. Babies, adult children, willful teenagers, every day a surprise. How to keep track of it all?
Sohaila wants her days in sequence again.
Unwishing a wish, like unblowing out a candle. Not an easy task.
This short story appeared on the 2013 Locus Magazine Recommended Reading List, was given an honorable Mention in Gardner Dozois' The Year's Best Science Fiction: Tenth Annual Collection, and was recommended reading in Rich Horton's The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2014 Edition.
Kate Macleod
Dr. Kate MacLeod is an innovative inclusive educator, researcher, and author. She began her career as a high school special education teacher in New York City and now works as faculty in the college of education at the University of Maine Farmington and as an education consultant with Inclusive Schooling. She has spent 15 years studying inclusive practices and supporting school leaders and educators to feel prepared and inspired to include all learners.
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DIN BA DIN
The freshly turned earth soaks through my jeans to chill my knees and I sit back, pushing the hair from my eyes then looking with annoyance at the mud on my palm now sticking wetly to my face. This happens more and more lately, my mind waking up about mid morning after my body has been going about its business for hours. It worries me.
A brilliant flash of light catches my eye and I turn to watch it climb the sky, like sunlight off a mirror, flickering but so bright. It glows too intensely for a star, more like the heat of a pinpoint sun. Lifegiving. But this sun goes up, trailing a long curve of white smoke behind it. I watch it shrink until it loses itself in its own smoky trail, far up into the blue.
Then the sound comes, a low rumble in my chest before my ears perceive it.
I look down at my hands, past the dirt. Sun-darkened, wrinkled, but not loose skin on bone. I'm forty, maybe nearly fifty. This isn't the rocket launch I dread, not yet. I sit on my heels,