Short stories by Mary Anne Mohanraj
Mary Anne Mohanraj is author of A Feast of Serendib, Bodies in Motion, The Stars Change, and twelve other titles. Other recent publications include stories for George R.R. Martin’s WildCards series, Perennial: A Garden Romance (Tincture), stories at Clarkesworld, Asimov’s, and Lightspeed, _and an essay in Roxane Gay’s _Unruly Bodies. _ Mohanraj founded Hugo-nominated and World Fantasy Award-winning speculative literature magazine _Strange Horizons, and serves as Executive Director of both DesiLit (desilit.org) and the Speculative Literature Foundation (speclit.org). She is Clinical Associate Professor of fiction and literature at the University of Illinois at Chicago. www.maryannemohanraj.com
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In the midst of an interplanetary war, two women meet an alien who is hoping to retrieve the body of his dead brother, whom he honors by consuming his remains.
On a planet far from Earth where people move so that they can change their bodies, discrimination against genetically engineered individuals pushes a woman to reexamine an old friendship and her dream of being a mother.