Summary

The third chapter of Winterson's novel, "Post-War 3", begins with a Billie more reminiscent of "Planet Blue" Billie than "Easter Island" Billy. She works for the government and is charged with taking care of Spike, the first Robo sapien, beautiful, but without a body. On the way home one night, she finds a manuscript titled "The Stone Gods" and, after reading a short bit of it, readers realize this is likely Winterson's own manuscript, a narration of all the universes previously occupied by Billie herself.

Of course, Billie does not realize this; readers do. Billie reflects on her infant years, which she can in fact remember, and how her father left her mother before her birth. "I remember my mother telling my grandmother that she wanted to make a new life" but the new mother and child only had twenty-eight days together before Billie...