Sharon is the smart one, the good child but not the good girl, and her parents treated her as such. Her brother gets the comic books from their dad but he doesn't think to bring them for her. When she asks her brother about them, she learns about how Superman came to earth after being placed in a rocket from Krypton when their planet was dying. Not very realistic she thinks. So when a stranger who seems familiar comes up to her at the library and drops a piece of paper on her book and walks away, she looks at it and finds an equation. Now that is something she can sink her teeth into. That equation leads her to places she could never have imagined but now that she has started down that path, she can understand Superman's parents better. The planet is dying and there is no rocketship to save any of them....or could there be?
A patreon short story by Seanan McGuire and one of her more depressing ones as I look around at our world today.
Page count: 20p/7,398p ytd/318,283p lifetime
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