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Weekly Contest #354
When I was much younger than I am now, my grandfather died, and two lights turned off. As the dwarfs slid down the sky, becoming blue and brighter, my mother took me to see them, part of a procession trailing away from our Ipoh manor. It began with the familiar walk Earthwards, passing the farmer Jones and his son Caleb, waving as we passed. Then our way became strange as we reached the outer walls of the Gaia. Below me the angled dirt and terraces fell away, rung-by-rung, and my weight left me too, so that by the end my mother had to catch ...
Weekly Contest #325
The ring spun easily, the hatch opened smoothly, both silent in the absence of air. Of the thirteen members of the array he’d visited so far, this was the only hatch that hadn’t required disassembly, and the Telescope servicing space held beyond it didn’t have the same random spray of decayed rubber from ancient seals long since worn down. Sparse and functional, plastic buttons looked as fresh as they must have those centuries ago, tough perspex bearing the years with an unusual dignity.Cupola windows at either end of the pill-shaped interio...
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