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colonization
- The Evenhand
A Registrar counting the living song-lines of a colony that assigns children their teachers by lot learns from a herdmaster's goat-breeding manual that the column of losses was never a record of failure, only of chance drifting one way — and that the best the colony can do is make it later.
- Ecclesia Supplet
A colony's last Water-keeper gives an account of two hundred and fourteen years without a priest — and the sacraments the laity kept, worked around, or simply marked absent, until the day a ship finally came.
- Alternation
Five generations of a colony bred to alternate between clonal halves and combined wholes narrate what it feels like to be a lot drawn from your mother, or her entire, or the first place two grandmothers ever touched.