Albert never planned to stay long.
A makeshift community of schoolteachers and half-feral kids wasn'''t exactly his idea of peace and quiet—even if it came with running water, rationed rice pudding, and the faint smell of chalk dust. But when trouble brews and tensions mount, Albert finds himself doing something unexpected: sticking around.
And when staying becomes dangerous, he does something even stranger.
He leads them away.
Because he knows a place. Off the map. Out of the way. Where tomato plants grow in neat rows, the old folk still believe in crochet, and nobody makes you join a sing-along.
At least, not twice.
Genre: Science Fiction
A makeshift community of schoolteachers and half-feral kids wasn'''t exactly his idea of peace and quiet—even if it came with running water, rationed rice pudding, and the faint smell of chalk dust. But when trouble brews and tensions mount, Albert finds himself doing something unexpected: sticking around.
And when staying becomes dangerous, he does something even stranger.
He leads them away.
Because he knows a place. Off the map. Out of the way. Where tomato plants grow in neat rows, the old folk still believe in crochet, and nobody makes you join a sing-along.
At least, not twice.
Genre: Science Fiction
Used availability for Jon Kiln's Beneath the Eucalypt