Free Fiction Monday: Sing
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Dirk wants to learn how to sing like the natives, but they have no word for singing nor a concept of it. Until Dirk tries to show a young child her people’s beautiful music.
Intrigued, she offers to help—only to discover that teaching Dirk to sing could cost her everything.
“Sing,” by Hugo Award-winning author Kristine Kathryn Rusch, is free on this website for one week only. The story is also available in ebook, paperback, and audiobook here and is included in the collection Colliding Worlds, Vol. 1, which is available in ebook, trade paperback, and hardcover here.
Sing
Kristine Kathryn Rusch
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