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Beneath the Rings of Rabba on the Curated Worlds
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Beneath the Rings of Rabba on the Curated Worlds

An audio short story

This is the audio version of my science fiction story set in the distant future on a very different world from our own. First published in September at my own website, this story was nine years in the making. I finally dusted off the old draft after receiving inspiration from transwidow Ute Heggen. Some of the material presented at Genspect conferences regarding evolution and gametes also inspired this, so it is a direct result of the work I have done here at The Distance. The free text of the story is linked below.

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Beneath the Rings of Rabba on the Curated Worlds
From altitude, the juggat appeared to be a weathered, worn stump. Some ancient tree, a sapling planted at the beginning of time, had stretched to touch the sky, whereupon a god had cut it down, the stump of the slaughtered giant petrifying over eons…
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