{"id":1291,"date":"2026-01-03T21:23:34","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T21:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/in-the-un-black-baxter-stephen\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T21:23:34","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T21:23:34","slug":"in-the-un-black-baxter-stephen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/in-the-un-black-baxter-stephen\/","title":{"rendered":"In The Un-Black – Baxter, Stephen"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I tracked him down at l-Con, a science fiction convention on Long Island<\/i>\u2014 and eventually, lucky for me,<\/i> got him to write the<\/i> following. <\/i><\/p>\n

On the day La-ba met Ca-si she saved his life. She hadn’t meant to. It was un-Doctrine. It just happened. But it changed everything. <\/p>\n

It had been a bad day for La-ba. <\/p>\n

She had been dancing. That wasn’t un-Doctrine, not exactly, but the cadre leaders disapproved. She was the leader of the dance, and she got stuck with Cesspit detail for ten days. <\/p>\n

It was hard, dirty work, the worst. And would-be deathers flourished there, in the pit. They would come swimming through the muck itself , to get you. <\/p>\n

That was what happened just two hours after she started work. Naked, she was standing knee-deep in a river of unidentifiable, odorless muck. <\/p>\n

Two strong hands grabbed her ankles and pulled her flat on her face. Suddenly her eyes and mouth and nose and ears were full of dense sticky waste. <\/p>\n

La-ba folded up her body and reached down to her toes. She found hands on her ankles, and farther up a shaven skull, wide misshapen ears. <\/p>\n

She recognized him from those ears. He was a We-ku, one of a batch of look-alikes who had come down from the Birthing Vat at the same time and had clung together ever since. If they had ever had their own names, they had long abandoned them. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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