Echo by Katherine MaClean

Author:Katherine MaClean [MaClean, Katherine]
Format: epub
Tags: Sci-Fi Short
Published: 2010-03-07T17:34:31.781000+00:00

The man began to awake. Darkness and the pressure of ground against his length, the pressure of ground and grass against his face.

"Don't return," the plants thought, willing strongly together. "Stay dark." And they feared together the re-turn of pain.

"Darkness," thought the man. "Sleep, avoid returning to pain." He sank back into nothingness and nonbroad-cast.

The plants felt pleasure and health, and the warm com-fort of spring winds, and the new reassurance of silence.

Suddenly the man awoke, an explosion of thought. Don't need sleep. Must splint my arm. Must signal for help. Pain pain! coming in intense waves, mastered and made unimportant by the decision to act.

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