Read Nina Kiriki Hoffman’s “Passed Down”
This week’s story is a very short one (to make up for last week’s… not-so-short one). It’s a clever bit of SF flash, taking one decision point and wrapping a whole bunch of alien concepts around it. It’s also just unsettling enough to stick with you.
“Passed Down” appears in Daily Science Fiction, which emails an original story every weekday (and I try to read most of them…).