Carpe Glitter

by Cat Rambo

  How I felt about that, I wasn’t entirely sure, but I was reconciling myself to it, along with the idea that I was keeping enough stuff to furnish my own apartment.

  Keeping bits that reminded me of childhood, like the comforter. History of my own, not my mother’s or grandmother’s. They’d stay with me, those two, and I’d always feel sorrow at their absence, but not regret. Never regret.

  You can seize the glitter, but your hands have to be open, not holding onto things. Reaching forward.

  Carpe glitter, my grandmother used to say. And that was what I meant to do.

  About the Author

  Nebula, World Fantasy, and Endeavour award nominee Cat Rambo's published work includes 200+ stories, two novels, five collections, a cookbook, a travel guide, and two books for writers, Moving from Idea to Draft and Creating an Online Presence for Writers. She runs The Rambo Academy for Wayward Writers, which offers live and on-demand online writing classes aimed at speculative fiction writers. She is a two-term President of the The Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America. Her 2020 publications include two novels: Exiles of Tabat (Wordfire Press) and You Sexy Thing (Tor/Macmillan).

  Find links and more information at www.kittyrumpus.net

  Author photo © OnFocus Photography

  ALSO BY CAT RAMBO

  NOVELS

  Beasts of Tabat

  Hearts of Tabat

  COLLECTIONS

  Altered America

  Near + Far

  Neither Here Nor There

  Eyes Like Sky and Coal and Moonlight

  The Surgeon's Tale and Other Stories (with Jeff VanderMeer)

  CARPE GLITTER. Copyright © 2019 by Cat Rambo.

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  ISBN-13 978-1-946154-53-8 (Paperback)

  ISBN-13 978-1-946154-34-7 (eBook)

  Library of Congress Control Number: 2019951065

  This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events and incidents are either the products of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.

  Cover Art by Zoomfish Studio

  Printed in the United States of America

  Published in the United States of America by

  Meerkat Press, LLC, Atlanta, Georgia

  www.meerkatpress.com