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Members of the mission to the planet Perez need to determine if the sloth-like native Perans are intelligent. Everyone except Beth, the mission translator, wants to finish the job and move on. When she decides to “go native,” she puts everyone, including the Perans, in danger. Then it’s up to Castillo, the mission protection agent, to decide the fate of the Perans. Is it too late to save Beth? (This story was originally published in Pulphouse the Hardback Magazine.)
Kim Antieau has written many novels, short stories, poems, and essays. Her work has appeared in numerous publications, both in print and online, including The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Asimov’s SF, The Clinton Street Quarterly, The Journal of Mythic Arts, EarthFirst!, Alternet, Sage Woman, and Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine. She was the founder, editor, and publisher of Daughters of Nyx: A Magazine of Goddess Stories, Mythmaking, and Fairy Tales. Her work has twice been short-listed for the James Tiptree Award and has appeared in many best-of-the-year anthologies. Critics have admired her “literary fearlessness” and her vivid language and imagination. Her first novel The Jigsaw Woman is a modern classic of feminist literature. She is also the author of a science fiction novel, The Gaia Websters and a contemporary tale set in the desert Southwest, Church of the Old Mermaids. Her other novels include Her Frozen Wild, The Fish Wife, and Coyote Cowgirl. Broken Moon, a novel for young adults, was a selection of the Junior Library Guild. She has also written other YA novels, including Deathmark, The Blue Tail, Ruby’s Imagine, and Mercy, Unbound. Kim lives in the Pacific Northwest with her husband, writer Mario Milosevic. Find her books at your favorite ebook store.
Kim Antieau
Kim Antieau is the author of Mercy, Unbound. She lives with her husband in the Pacific Northwest.
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Windows - Kim Antieau
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Kim Antieau
Published by Green Snake Publishing at Smashwords
Copyright (c) 2012 by Kim Antieau
Originally appeared in Pulphouse #4, Summer 1989
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I DREAMED I was a child in the desert again,
Beth said as she stepped out of our temp building into the jungle morning. She stroked a leafy vine that had grown across the door during the night. I sat alone in that compound listening to sand rub away the walls, waiting for the life-support systems to fail.
She pushed her white blonde hair away from her face and looked around. Light came through the overhead trees and spotted her eyes, changing them from blue to sand. When she turned to face me, her eyes became blue again.
I love this planet, Castillo,
she said, walking to the Rover where I sat eating breakfast.
I laughed. "That’s obvious. We’ve only been on Perez four weeks and everyone except you wants to leave. Every time the other survey crews call in, they complain about the heat, the humidity, the jungle,