My Lady Greensleeves
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Frederik Pohl
Frederik Pohl (1919-2013) was one of science fiction's most important authors. Among his many novels are Gateway, which won the John W. Campbell Memorial Award, the Hugo Award, the Locus SF Award, and the Nebula Award, Beyond the Blue Event Horizon, which was a finalist for the Hugo and Nebula Awards, and Jem, which won the 1980 National Book Award in Science Fiction. He also collaborated on classic science fiction novels including The Space Merchants with Cyril M. Kornbluth. Pohl was an award-winning editor of Galaxy and If, a book editor at Bantam, and served as president of the Science Fiction Writers of America. He was named a Grand Master of Science Fiction by SFWA in 1993, and was inducted into the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame.
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My Lady Greensleeves - Frederik Pohl
MY LADY GREENSLEEVES
Frederik Pohl
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I
HIS NAME WAS LIAM O’Leary and there was something stinking in his nostrils. It was the smell of trouble. He hadn’t found what the trouble was yet, but he would. That was his business. He was a captain of guards in Estates-General Correctional Institution—better known to its inmates as the Jug—and if he hadn’t been able to detect the scent of trouble brewing a cell-block away, he would never have survived to reach his captaincy.
And her name, he saw, was Sue-Ann Bradley, Detainee No. WFA-656R.
He frowned at the rap sheet, trying to figure out what got a girl like her into a place like this. And, what was more important, why she couldn’t adjust herself to it, now that she was in.
He demanded: Why wouldn’t you mop out your cell?
The girl lifted her head angrily and took a step forward. The block guard, Sodaro, growled warningly: Watch it, auntie!
O’Leary shook his head. Let her talk, Sodaro.
It said in the Civil Service Guide to Prison Administration: Detainees will be permitted to speak in their own behalf in disciplinary proceedings.
And O’Leary was a man who lived by the book.
She burst out: I never got a chance! That old witch Mathias never told me I was supposed to mop up. She banged on the door and said, ‘Slush up, sister!’ And then, ten minutes later, she called the guards and told them I refused to mop.
The block guard guffawed. Wipe talk—that’s what she was telling you to do. Cap’n, you know what’s funny about this? This Bradley is—
Shut up, Sodaro.
Captain O’leary put down his pencil and looked at the girl. She was attractive and young—not beyond hope, surely. Maybe she had got off to a wrong start, but the question was, would putting her in the disciplinary block help straighten her out? He rubbed his ear and looked past her at the line of prisoners on the rap detail, waiting for him to judge their cases.
He said patiently: Bradley, the rules are you have to mop out your cell. If you didn’t understand what Mathias was talking about, you should have asked her. Now I’m warning you, the next time—
Hey, Cap’n, wait!
Sodaro was looking alarmed. This isn’t a first offense. Look at the rap sheet. Yesterday she pulled the same thing in the mess hall.
He shook his head reprovingly at the prisoner. The block guard had to break up a fight between her and another wench, and she claimed the same business—said she didn’t understand when the other one asked her to move along.
He added virtuously: The guard warned her then that next time she’d get the Greensleeves for sure.
Inmate Bradley seemed to be on the verge of tears. She said tautly: I don’t care. I don’t care!
O’Leary stopped her. That’s enough! Three days in Block O!
It was the only thing to do—for her own sake as much as for his. He had managed, by strength of will, not to hear that she had omitted to say sir
every time she spoke to him, but he couldn’t keep it up forever and he certainly couldn’t overlook hysteria. And hysteria was clearly the next step for her.
All the same, he stared after her as she left. He handed the rap sheet to Sodaro and said absently: "Too bad