PodCastle 416: Braid of Days and Wake of Nights - a podcast by Escape Artists, Inc

* Author : E. Lily Yu

* Narrator : Khaalidah Muhammad-Ali

* Host : Jen R. Albert

* Audio Producer : Peter Wood

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First appeared in Fantasy and Science Fiction.





 

Rated PG-13

 

Braid of Days and Wake of Nights

by E. Lily Yu

With an immaculate thumbnail, Julia peeled open the ziplock bag in her lap. The coil of hair inside, wide as her thumb and nine feet long, was woven throughout with black and gold strands in equal proportion. When Vivian began chemo last May, her hair had skimmed the lower edge of her scapulae. Three weeks later, her purple stripes had rinsed to blonde, and she had not dyed them again. Vivian had smiled at Julia in the bathroom mirror, eyebrows high and brave, but after the first handful slithered to the floor, she handed the humming razor to Julia and covered her eyes.

“You do it,” she said.

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