标题: 《Don't ask》作者： - M. Rickert【EPUB】 [打印本页] 作者: zaq 时间: 2013-4-11 20:50 标题: 《Don't ask》作者： - M. Rickert【EPUB】 Don’t Ask by M. Rickert Mary Rickert’s first collection of short stories, Map of Dreams, garnered some nice reviews over the past year and it is currently a finalist for the World Fantasy Award. Her new story is a fantasy that might make you forget the women who run with wolves and make you think of the children instead.... * * * * When the lost boys returned with their piercings, tattoos, and swagger, we rejoiced and greeted them with balloons, bubble gum, chocolate chip cookies, and bone-crunching hugs, which they did not resist. Only later did we realize that this was one of their symptoms, this acquiescence, not a sign of their affection for us, though we do not doubt their affection. How could wolves slope through town, unseen, and steal our boys from bicycles, from country roads, from the edge of the driveway, from our kitchen tables, dank with the scent of warm milk and soggy cereal; from our arms—wasn’t it just yesterday that we held our boys close and sang them lullabies? How could they be taken from us? Yet they