Penitents

Rich Larson BCS 245 2018

ShortStory 6,374 words Recommended by 4 award/anthology sources

Mara has made a deal with a scavenger girl to help her rescue her best friend, who left the underground habitat to try to talk to the aliens and never came back.

Science Fantasy Colonialism Post Apocalyptic

More tags 16

First Contact Dystopia Philosophical Slow Burn Class Inequality Unsettling Secondary World Sacrifice Melancholic Survival Literary SF Contemplative Belonging Close Third Person Bittersweet Character Driven

Content warnings 2

body-horrorviolence

Quasar links out; the story lives on BCS, where the author gets the click.

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