Stories tagged “setting”
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Winter Generation
Longyear orbits within the Habitable Zone of the blue giant Atlantica once every 80 years. It has only one large landmass, at about 18 degrees north latitude. The planet’s axial tilt is very small, and Longyear’s weather is bearable without...
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The Stevens Estate
The Stevens estate was spacious, but not overwhelmingly huge. The main house, along with the staff’s quarters, was built into the side of a hill. A neat hedge ran as a fence up near the street, leaving a space for the path and sloping lawn leadin...
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Darkness Falls
The night was falling quickly, the sky a myriad of colors; purples, pinks, and oranges. Not a cloud in the sky, but a mist was rolling in slowly, beginning to cover the ground. The temperature rose by degrees until it became unseasonably warm. The humi...
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The City Calls Out
The city of Wymyn isn’t phenomenally interesting on its own. There are a few buildings housing locally owned businesses, a few that may have once but now only house the homeless. People come and go and generally are polite to one another, they ev...
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The Rose Cottage
Malthus waited in his room until someone needed his expertise. It was a cold and lonely existence for Malthus. Malthus wasn’t his real name, in fact he wasn’t even a real person, but the room he waited in wasn’t really his either, so ...