Daryl Gregory (www.darylgregory.com) is an exciting new writer who published his first story in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction in 1990. Since then he has published a handful of science fiction and fantasy stories, mostly in Asimov's and F&SF. His first novel, Pandemonium, will be published later this year.
The story that follows, one of two very fine stories Gregory published during the year, is a James Tiptree Jr. influenced tale of love, friendship, and responsibility.