Moon Baby
This story appeared in the Summer 2000 issue of the moon-focused Artemis Magazine. The genesis was simple: what would it be like, I wondered, to be the first human born on another world...?
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THE MOONQUAKE WASN'T MUCH, as such things went; back in Apollo City it wasn’t felt at all, though of course it registered clearly on the hordes of seismographs that recorded every twitch of the moon’s thick, cold crust. But here, near the epicentre, it was enough: enough to send Scott Morgan reeling across the rock-strewn plain like a drunk; enough to make Pamela Ash gasp and then say a most un-ladylike word as she staggered and fell on her moonsuited rear; enough to raise a thin miasma of dust that hung above the surface like mist over an Earthside swamp; and enough to topple a hal
