The Crow Procedure

The surgery to give Mr Dapple the wings of a crow was scheduled to take twelve minutes
By Stephen Marche
Science Fiction · From the July/Aug 2009 magazine
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Samaritan didn’t like to engage too closely with the residents at the hospital — some of the other surgeons went so far as to join bonds with their wards — because engagement was so much work and he already had enough work. But if he didn’t say anything to Riel now, he realized, he was going to have these conversations until his retirement four years from now.

“Can I ask you, Riel, how long you’ve been here?” he asked.

“Six years nearly.”

Samaritan hated confrontation. “You know you’re my blood, one way or the other, but I don’t want to hear about you not liking the surgeries anymore.”

“Metamorphoses don’t fit our ways. They’re the opposite of our ways.”

“Riel, you know what Iiyiyuushii used to be called?”

“Quebec.”

“And before then?”

“Canada.”

“And you know how we got it back?”
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