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Brief piece chronicling the fate of a New Ceres family whose strange gifts prompt the 'powers that be' to destroy the entire family.
Notes
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The piece is positioned as anthropological science fiction in the vein of Ursula Le Guin. A disclaimer at the beginning of the story reads:
Excerpt: New Ceres Field Notes of Dr Meredith Perle, Assoc. Prof., Chair of Anthropology, University of Minerva.
During one of my many information-gathering forays through the anachronistic society of New Ceres, I heard of a man called only 'The Raconteur' who knew all the old tales of early New Ceresian history and legend. I finally discovered him in a back street coffee house in the coastal city of Celestine - an old man now. At my request, he related the following tale.
