Archives for 30 August 2007
EP121: The Snow Woman’s Daughter
Published on 30 Aug 2007 at 4:20 am.
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Filed under Podcasts, Rated G.
Read ‘EP121: The Snow Woman’s Daughter’
-->By Eugie Foster.
Read by cunning minx (of Polyamory Weekly).
First appeared in Cricket magazine, February 2007.
When I was a little girl, I thought my mother’s name was Yuki, which means snow. That was part of her name, but I didn’t learn the rest of it until the night my father died.
My mother left us on a slate-gray evening when I was five, with her namesake falling from the sky and piled high around the windows and doors. Awakened by raised voices, I watched through a tear in the curtain that shielded my sleeping mat as my mother wrapped her limbs in a shining, white kimono. As far back as I could remember, she had always worn the dark wool shifts that all mountain people wear, spun from the hair of the half-mad goats that give us milk and cheese. In her kimono she looked like a princess, or a queen. Her skin was paler than mine, and I am thought quite fair. Roku, the boy who lived on the northern crest, used to tease me when we were little, calling me “ghost girl” and “milk face.”
Rated G. Contains non-graphic death and childbearing.
Referenced Sites:
Daily Dragon Podcast
Dragon*Con 2007
