The Best American Science Fiction And Fantasy 2016 - Plot & Excerpts
The History of Everything There’s never been a world that isn’t a world at war. That’s the truest thing we know, and we’ve known it since we were boys, since before we got our orders and obeyed them. We weren’t equipped or expected to end that war. We were equipped to move over ground, kill those in our way, and begin again elsewhere, in another part of the world, in another part of the war. We were soldiers. We were born that way. If ever asked to testify, we were to say only that we were soldiers and had always been soldiers and would always be soldiers. We were to seek, and to destroy. We were to open mouths and pull out useful truths. That was our mission. That was what we did. That is why they sent us here. Perhaps the war has ended and there’s peace on Earth, but if there is, we don’t want to know it. The Punishment for Mercy Out in the jungle where it rains in perpetuity, there’s a woman who’s lived for seven hundred years. We were informed on the first day of our deployment that she’d looped a spell around us like a corral and that we’d suffer here for our sins.
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