Now and then, an author has a tale that they can’t let go, that drives them to see it released and placed in front of the eyes of the reader.

I give you “Beacon”, a short story of 6,352 words, exclusively available (for now) from Amazon.com. As for the tale’s content, I’ll let my blurb do the talking:

Tersias and Mally have lived their lives in orbit around Beacon, the last star in the Universe. But now the young couple have done the impossible: they have conceived. And something has noticed.

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