Boy in the Key of Forsaken
ShortStory 5,300 words Recommended by 4 award/anthology sources
"It didn’t really matter how he had come to be abandoned. A guardian had been at his side; was there no more. Locke was the only human on the world, so far as he knew. Many other lives were here. Survival was simple enough. Along the broad roofless corridors, beneath lustrous golden skies, stood tall boxes that dispensed food."
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