Set Fair

by R. S. Breed

Everything else was being taken.

The old barometer comes off the kitchen wall. The good tea towel goes into a box. Meg and Edwin have spent months learning how to occupy the same house without facing the same direction.

Their son Owen is due home from fleet service before the move. They have agreed on one thing: whatever happens to the house, they will tell him together, in person.

Then a government car turns into the drive. Set Fair is a complete standalone science-fiction short read about grief, weather, marriage and deciding what not to lose when everything else is subtraction. Set in the Fracture Cosmology. No previous reading required.

A standalone short story in The Working Sky. Complete in itself — start anywhere.

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