“The only reason you had me was so you could get a maid you wouldn’t have to pay,” you’ll say bitterly, dragging the vacuum cleaner out of the closet. I remember the scenario of your origin you’ll suggest when you’re twelve. Telling it to you any earlier wouldn’t do any good for most of your life you won’t sit still to hear such a romantic - you’d say sappy - story. I’d love to tell you the story of this evening, the night you’re conceived, but the right time to do that would be when you’re ready to have children of your own, and we’ll never get that chance. Right now your dad and I have been married for about two years, living on Ellis Avenue when we move out you’ll still be too young to remember the house, but we’ll show you pictures of it, tell you stories about it.
And then your dad says, “Do you want to make a baby?”
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We came out onto the patio to look at the full moon then I told your dad I wanted to dance, so he humors me and now we’re slow-dancing, a pair of thirtysomethings swaying back and forth in the moonlight like kids. Your dad and I have just come back from an evening out, dinner and a show it’s after midnight. This is the most important moment in our lives, and I want to pay attention, note every detail. Your father is about to ask me the question. * BingeBooks earns revenue from qualifying purchases as an Amazon Associate as well as from other retail partners. Includes “Story of Your Life”-the basis for the major motion picture Arrival An award-winning collection from one of today's most lauded writers, Stories of Your Life and Others is a contemporary classic. With sharp intelligence and humor, Chiang examines what it means to be alive in a world marked by uncertainty, but also by beauty and wonder.
Stories of Your Life and Others delivers dual delights of the very, very strange and the heartbreakingly familiar, often presenting characters who must confront sudden change-the inevitable rise of automatons or the appearance of aliens-with some sense of normalcy. raises questions about the nature of reality and what it is to be human" ( The New York Times). From the author of Exhalation, an award-winning short story collection that blends "absorbing storytelling with meditations on the universe, being, time and space.
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