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Evelyn K. Brunswick's avatar

I enjoyed that very much - it's the sort of meditative sci-fi I really go for (and write myself sometimes too). With the hint of timelessness and philosophy within.

One thing I've often loathed about sci-fi is stuff that is blatantly about the present day but pretends not to be (if it is about today but says so explicitly that's ok). That's not what I want. I want somewhere else and somewhen else. You succeeded in capturing that there. Great piece.

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J.M. Ransom's avatar

THIS IS TERRIFIC. I genuinely think this might be my favorite piece of fiction that I’ve encountered on Substack so far. I love every piece of this — the shifting, tangling body, Echo, the concepts, the language, the fleshiness. I was ecstatic reading it.

If I highlighted every line that I loved it would just be the whole story, but here are a few that I made special note of:

“and we prayed for it to, even if it meant the end” hooked me in the very beginning.

“One of us knows. One of us must still know.”

“pressing our face to feel the otherside of what she must feel, willing the sensation of skin on skin.”

“We begin to slough away”

“And so be keyed into the genesis”

“We watch the gravity of an infant world growing like a blastula”

“For a light year” ahh, such a fascinating interchange of time and distance here.

Yeah. I’m SO glad I found this while trawling the comments section of the Lunar Awards submission post. This is a real gem.

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