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Sensor resources) on their course ahead which she'd been reading., noting that if they weren't skipping ahead using the trajector, the asteroid belt surrounding that trinary pulsar would have been a great place to mine supplies as well as a likely spot for xians
Fortnight: Lightning Strikes the Family Tree
He remembered xian talking about a weird short story he was working on, something about the world's waste overcoming its absorbency. rather, it was the world's culture: expecting so much gratification, it leaked and spilled everywhere ...
The Braying
In the passage of years involving destitute life - when his mental construct became commensurate with that of the xian's 'hell' - those lovely scales faded in their glory, regressing in the spectrum of color to that of being bereft of their once magnificence