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    Growing Up Sam
    Growing Up Sam
    Growing Up Sam
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    Growing Up Sam

    By Melissa Yuan-Innes

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    Hi.
    I Sam.
    I half bonobo, half human.
    That make people want to kill me.
    I not care. I play in my steel room.
    But then something go very wrong.

    Honorable Mention, The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Second Annual Collection

    "affecting"-- Rich Horton, SF Site

    "strong...In tone the story resembles Flowers for Algernon.... Yuan-Innes pulls off quite a difficult balancing act."
    --James Schellenberg Challenging Destiny

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOlo Books
    Release dateJun 15, 2011
    ISBN9780986835681
    Growing Up Sam
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    Melissa Yuan-Innes

    Melissa Yuan-Innes is an emergency room doctor and writer who lives with her husband, one son, one daughter, two cows, and too many mosquitoes outside of Montreal, Canada. She writes thrillers and science fiction/fantasy under Melissa Yuan-Innes, mysteries under the name Melissa Yi, romance under Melissa Yin, and children's/YA under Melissa Yuan. "Mixing mystery in with sheer humanity and splendid characterization, Yuan-Innes's story is a delight." --Alicia Curtis, A&E Editor, The Stormy Petrel "Melissa Yuan-Innes delivers a Bradburyian shocker" --Paul Di Filippo, Asimov's "Yuan-Innes employs a fresh use of language to spin a storyline that is at once universally familiar and intriguingly original." --Brian Agincourt Massey, judge of the 2008 Innermoonlit Award for Best First Chapter of a Novel, in awarding first prize to _The Popcorn Girl Meets Darwin Jones_

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      Growing Up Sam - Melissa Yuan-Innes

      Growing Up Sam

      By Melissa Yuan-Innes

      Published by Olo Books

      Smashwords Edition

      Copyright 2011 by Melissa Yuan-Innes

      Today Jackie bring cake. It is your birthday, Sam Ian! You are three years old.

      We eat cake. It fruitcake. It taste good.

      Jackie bring present. Shiny. I see my face in it. Smile. My teeth scary! I yell. She laugh.

      She bring daughter. Severine two years old. She have smooth brown skin, fuzzy black hair, big brown eyes. Like Jackie. We look. She comb through my fur with fingers. This is best present.

      ***

      Tom get mad today. Tom try teach me sign language. Come on, Sam. You use the computer. Now you have to learn the signs.

      I try, but it hard. I like portaspeak. Push keyboard, synthesizer make sound. Talk for me. Fun.

      But Sam, this is more visually interesting. An homage to Koko. Now come on.

      Tom use big words. I try. I learn apple, water.

      Jackie come in. She say something to Tom. She hug me. She pretend give birth and holding baby. Then she show

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