Twelve-year-old Sarah decides to keep her mother’s death quiet so that the kids can all stay together, but somehow the previously unknown Uncle E gets wind of the happening.
We have a hard time getting to sleep—except for Elliot.

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  1. “Uncle E” by Carol Emshwiller, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, December 2010.
  2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by Carol Emshwiller