Stories of Hope by Aussie Speculative Fiction

Author:Aussie Speculative Fiction
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: anthology, bushfire, aussie, australian, australia, stories of hope, charity, fantasy, hop, hope, science fiction, sci fi, asf, aussie speculative fiction
Publisher: Deadset Press
Published: 2020-02-26T16:00:00+00:00

JAKE WAS FIVE WEEKS older as he sat on the edge of her bed. Penny stared at him, propped up on her pillows. The house was quiet, their parents out.

“Well squirt, two weeks left.”

“Maybe, maybe a bit less. It’s the right time.”

“Just what I was thinking.”

She looked around her room. Her walls were full of shelves, the shelves full of ceramic pigs, some purple with green flowers, others yellow with stars. At the foot of her bed one white pig sat patiently.

“One of yours and one of mine?”

“That feels right.”

Jake picked up a yellow pig with one hand and the white one in his other. He held the pigs above Penny.

“Now?”

“Now.”

Jake tapped the pigs together; the porcelain cracked then disappeared. Lime green light cascaded into Penny’s open mouth as the hours, days and weeks of promises never kept infused into her, renewed her until her life was no longer measured in days but in decades.

Jenny swung her legs around, sprung out of bed to the sound of crunching gravel from the driveway below.

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