The Daydark
This was a very early story of mine, but it remained unpublished until the fall of 2002, when it appeared in Gateway S-F Magazine, which focused on Christian science fiction. I grew up in the church of Christ, attending services three times a week. My father was a preacher, teacher, deacon, and eventually elder in the church. I graduated from both a Christian high school and a Christian university. It’s therefore not at all surprising that religion makes a frequent appearance in my work, as it does in this story, albeit in a low-key way.
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THE THREE-WHEELED GROUNDCAR FISHTAILED around every curve in the rutted cart track, spraying dust and pebbles into the purple roadside weeds. The alien hobbling down the middle of the road didn’t even glance at it. Only metres away f
