The golem standing before him was small, and its eyes glowed red. It
bent over and set something down on the earth, a fur-wrapped bundle of
smoked meat.
It nodded at him. He nodded back.
"Thank you," he said.
Mimi put her hand on his calf. "Is it okay?"
"It's right," he said. "Just as it was meant to be."
He returned to her arms and they kissed. "No falling in love," she said.
"Perish the thought," he said.
She bit his lip and he bit hers and they kissed again, and then he was
asleep, and at peace.
=== Bio ===
Canadian-born Cory Doctorow (craphound.com) is the European Affairs
coordinator for the Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff.org). He is the
coeditor of the popular weblog Boing Boing -- boingboing.net -- with
millions of visitors every month. He won the John W. Campbell Award for
Best New Writer at the 2000 Hugo awards and his novel Down and Out in
the Magic Kingdom (http://craphound.com/down/) won the Locus Award for
Best First Novel the same year that his short story collection A Place
So Foreign and Eight More (http://craphound.com/place/) won the Sunburst
Award for best Canadian science fiction book. His other books include
Eastern Standard Tribe (http://craphound.com/est/) and Rapture of the
Nerds (with Charles Stross).
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