Last Meal Aboard the Awassa
ShortStory 1,792 words Recommended by 2 award/anthology sources
"Gardener ladled dark-purple porridge into her primary digestion sac, staring absently out the viewport at black space and the distant smudge of the planet they had come to study. The simple meal and the gesture it represented soothed her after a long, thorny morning in a section of the growth bay..."
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death
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