Free Fiction Monday: Story Child

In the years after the Abandonment, the event’s survivors face yet another devastating struggle. Michael does his best to treat the persistent illness, but he secretly wonders if it marks the end of them all.
Until the child appears. A child who seems to offer hope.
But hope might prove the biggest challenge of all.
“Story Child” by Hugo Award-winning author Kristine Kathryn Rusch is free on this website for one week only. The story is also available in ebook here.
Story Child
Kristine Kathryn Rusch
The free story will be available for one week only. If you missed this one, click on the links above. There’s another free story lurking somewhere around the site. Track the story down, read, and enjoy!
As you might guess, this hits pretty much all of my story cookies. I’ve cut way down on my disaster-novel reading in the last year. It’s nice to have a story of hope.
It did seem awfully fitting for these times, didn’t it? I really appreciated reading it.