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The Year Without Sunshine

Novelette 10,883 words Recommended by 8 award/anthology sources

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"During one of the much smaller disasters that preceded the really big disaster, I met a lot of my neighbors online. I can’t remember if we set up the WhatsApp group because of the pandemic or the civil disorder or both. My Minneapolis block had always been reasonably friendly..."

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Midwest USAHopefulIntrospectiveFound FamilyWarmIntimateUrbanSurvivalNear FutureSocial SFLiterary SFContemplativeBelongingFirst PersonGrief And LossBittersweetCharacter DrivenScience Fiction

Content warnings 3

deathillness-and-pandemicviolence

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