Not Alone

Pat Murphy Reactor 02/05/25 2025

ShortStory 4,400 words Recommended by 2 award/anthology sources

Mel relishes running the “Enchanted Jungle,” a roadside attraction in the Everglades filled with live parrots, concrete dinosaurs, and other unexpected wonders.

First Contact Consciousness Tender

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Introspective Elegiac Lyrical Prose Memory Contemporary Literary SF Contemplative Belonging First Person Grief And Loss Identity Bittersweet Character Driven Science Fiction

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death-of-a-loved-one

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