You’re Cordially Invited to Crossroads Station — Chapter 1

by Mary E. Lowd

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“…they went straight to the printer and poked their long, red-furred muzzles into it, trying to spy the object before it was done forming.”

The grasses swayed, blue and green, like an ocean rippling in the wind, right outside Anno’s window.  She leaned her narrow muzzle against a paw and stared at the natural wonder that was simply plants growing on the surface of a planet.  So simple and yet, where she had grown up, so rare.  Every day here, living on New Heffe, she reveled in it.  She was surrounded by it.  Fields that stretched outward, seemingly endlessly, like the night sky that had enfolded her childhood home of Crossroads Station.
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