The Mausoleum's Children
ShortStory 5,411 words Recommended by 4 award/anthology sources
"Thuận Lộc stared at the cup. It was dark, and mottled with the characteristic patterning of silver-eye fungus. The tea inside was trembling—the faint vibrations from the Mausoleum, the dead ships’ atrophied motors that would never again allow them to hang, weightless, among the stars."
Content warnings 2
child-abuseviolence
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