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The Sky Used to be Blue
2013
First Published
3.81
Average Rating
63
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This is an 8,500 word short story based on Hugh Howey's WOOL books, published with his encouragement. Karma lives in a Silo deep beneath the earth. She isn't sure of much else… only that the wallscreen shows an outside view that is barren and swirling with toxic clouds. Most of the others seem content—except for the ones who jump to their death from the hundred-level spiral staircase. And the ones that are pushed. After the doctor prescribes a special liquid and tells her to avoid tap water, Karma begins to remember a very different world. Despite the fog in her mind, she is convinced that something came before. Such memories are dangerous to talk about, or even to know. She must figure out who can be trusted. The doctor… her husband… or no one at all.

Avg Rating
3.81
Number of Ratings
684
5 STARS
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4 STARS
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3 STARS
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2 STARS
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Author

Patrice Fitzgerald
Patrice Fitzgerald
Author · 11 books
Patrice Fitzgerald is an indie author, publisher, attorney, and intergalactic singer of songs. She has been publishing herself and others since 2011 and is the force behind the BEYOND THE STARS series of space opera anthologies. Patrice is thrilled to introduce Captain Wu and her STARSHIP NAMELESS crew in her most recent trilogy, written with the inimitable Jack Lyster.
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