A Texture Like Velvet — Helen Marshall

When a young academic confronts the mass genocide underwriting her own intellectual inheritance, she comes to question the value of knowledge at the expense of human life. From Aurora Award-winner Helen Marshall's Hair Side, Flesh Side, this short story is one of a set of fifteen quirky and cutting parables about history, memory, and the cost of creating art.

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