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  • FUTURES

Piano concerto for new hands

Time for a change.
By
  1. Andrea Kriz

    1. Andrea Kriz flies with the vultures in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Her stories have also appeared in recompose and Daily Science Fiction.

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My fingers shake with the effort of pincering the CD. One wrong move, I know, and I’ll snap it in two. Slowly, jerkily, I lower it into the player, press it into place and close the lid. No sooner do I do so than my arm thumps back to the covers. Sweat pours down my face. Willing that hunk of metal to move again seems more daunting than climbing Olympus Mons.

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Nature 557, 134 (2018)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-018-05000-8

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