THE GOD'S WIFE (26 page)

In the years to come, after the passing of her father, when she ruled as Queen and Great Wife of the Two Lands, she never went to bathe without stopping at the bird’s grave, remembering the little dance of death as it swirled through in the air, before landing so untimely on the cold, unforgiving earth. Neferet never again questioned the priests about losing her Ba, and she never told a living person that it really had been lost. It crashed into her soul at the only time it could — when it was needed to save her life. But what other life was lost? She tended the bird’s grave and let her mind wonder at the complexity of what once seemed a simple world. She was whole, but somewhere in the vastness of the universe, some other entity dashed itself to fragments.

Lynn Voedisch is a fiction writer and journalist with many years experience working for newspapers and magazines, such as the Chicago Sun-Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, Dance magazine and many other publications. Currently, she works as an editor and author for Technorati.com, an online news service. Her previously published novel is
Excited Light
(ASJA Press). Lynn is a member of the board of directors of the Society of Midland Authors. She lives three blocks from the Chicago border with her husband and three cats. Her son hopes to graduate from law school soon and Lynn looks forward to having a lawyer in the family. Her hobbies are tennis and tai chi.