Si Shou
ShortStory 7,104 words Recommended by 1 award/anthology source
"So can you do it?” The artisan hesitates, about to turn the page of the sketchbook given to her by, she is realizing, the most important client she might ever have. “Not alone,” she says, and her own honesty surprises her. “Most of the design, what you’re asking, it’s not a problem. But the nervework—the neurology, even the chirology, well..."
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