Mary Kuryla’s short story, “On the Occasion of a Burial of Ernest Zach Ulrich” was featured in Strange Horizons in February 2018.
“My name is Nanny Furze, and though I was not asked to talk for E.Z. Ulrich upon this day of his burial—not the first internment of E.Z., but I will not talk to that since nobody (not Bic, Simp, Shirtrun, Lacrosse, Mr. Wade, not even Ulrich’s widow) has talked of it today—I aim to talk, not of the number of times E.Z. has necessitated burial, not that, but of the words that filled me in a rush all at once last night when I was otherwise occupied in avoiding my monthly additions and absractions of the scant profits to be had in administering to the sick. …”
Hear the story read by Strange Horizons editor Anaea Lay for the Strange Horizons podcast
Mary Kuryla 