Rina wakes before the bell and lies still, reading her. Anna sleeps on her back, one hand curled near her chin. Everyone born down here sleeps like that, nothing like the training reels. Her breath is shallow and fast. It has been getting faster for a week, and Rina knows it the way she knows … Continue reading Rotation Seven (Grain Series)
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The Grain: A World Bible in Eleven Modules
Working title. A near-future hard-SF setting for a short story collection. What this is A shared world, not a plot. Eleven modules, each deriving from the ones before it, ending in a kit for making individual stories. Nothing here is a premise on its own; everything here is a condition stories happen inside. The setting … Continue reading The Grain: A World Bible in Eleven Modules
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