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Have Mercy, My Love, While We Wait for the Thaw

ShortStory 5,657 words Recommended by 2 award/anthology sources

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"The Grieving House rises like a lighthouse from the artificial snowdrifts, its windows blazing honeyed gold. The clean lines of it look too much like a grave marker. The House was built to give the bereaved some sense of togetherness and let them guide each other, a space of community and healing."

Space OperaColonialismRestrained

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GuiltIntrospectivePolitical ResistanceDeep SpaceTenseFar FutureSacrificeMelancholicMemorySocial SFLiterary SFFirst PersonBittersweetCharacter DrivenScience Fiction

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