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Steve Kelsey's avatar

This reminds me of ‘Engine Summer’, by John Crowley, one of my favourite post apocalypse novels. Beautifully done.

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𝐂𝐁 𝐌𝐚𝐬𝐨𝐧's avatar

Thanks, Steve! Welcome to my ‘Stack! I hope you enjoy traveling among the Forged world!

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Kate Schieber's avatar

Lovely scene with lots of insights and foreshadowing! Made me tear up.

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𝐂𝐁 𝐌𝐚𝐬𝐨𝐧's avatar

Thanks, Kate! And thanks for all you have done to get this story to where it is!!! (Kate is my editor extraordinaire, everyone!)

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Larry Hogue's avatar

What a great memory from Tessa! Not going to spoil anything by saying more.

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𝐂𝐁 𝐌𝐚𝐬𝐨𝐧's avatar

Thanks, Larry! It was fun to pull later parts of the story to show from this early perspective of “before”— lots of hints are sprinkled within but reader won’t notice them until after reading 𝙎𝙝𝙖𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙚𝙙!

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