enyeto shot him a surprised look and his mouth fell open , struggling for the right words to say . '' come tomorrow morning , '' elsu said to angie , '' and i will teach you to fish . '' '' thank you ! '' angie smiled , '' i will be here ! '' she clasped her hands and ran back down to her washing , excited to learn the art of
fishing

hardware failures were so rare in node 3 that she could n't remember the numerical codings . susan flipped through the sys-op manual , scanning the list of error codes . 19 : corrupt hard partition 20 : dc spike 21 : media failure when she reached number 22 , she stopped and stared a long moment . baffled , she double-checked her monitor . error code 22 susan frowned and returned to the sys-op
manual

in the backyard the trees stand sentinel around us , frozen branches like figurines of hollow glass , an inch of a fine white powder piled atop each one . the snow is up to our knees aside from the small patch henri has cleared away . bernie kosar sits watching from the back porch . even he wants nothing to do with the
snow