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*Forest for the Trees* by Kristine Kathryn Rusch A Short Story Kristine Kathryn Rusch's most recent story for us, "June Sixteenth at Anna's" (April 2003), will appear in Gardner Dozois's _Year's Best Science Fiction_. Her latest novel, _Consequences _(Roc), is the third stand-alone book in the award-winning Retrieval Artist series. Ms. Rusch also writes books as Kris Nelscott and as Kristine Grayson. -------On Wednesday, there were three cop cars in front of Louisa's house. On Thursday, she didn't come to school. On Friday, when she joined the smokers in the parking lot, I grinned at her as if nothing was wrong. "Wanna cut class?" I asked. She bummed a smoke and sucked on it like she'd been smoking all her life. Actually, when I met her a year ago, she'd never had a smoke or a drink. She'd never done anything except follow the rules which, I gotta admit, I thought was pretty boring. "We could see the forest," I said. She looked at me sideways and I could see she was tempted. We'd been planning to go to the forest, but no one |
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