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One Final Walk in the Dust and the Rain by Anthony W. Eichenlaub
Science Fiction climate change cli-fi soil science plants
“‘Feel that?’ she said. ‘This soil is still alive. It hasn’t had the organics baked out of it yet. There’ll be life here if we seed it right.’ ”
As long as Sydney can remember, the upper Mississippi has been a deserted wasteland. But when a once-in-a-lifetime rainstorm appears on the horizon, she’ll be pulled into her grandmother’s quixotic quest to sow life into fallow ground—no matter the cost.
Author Anthony W. Eichenlaub himself grew up in the upper Mississippi, and his stories have appeared in Little Blue Marble, the anthology Fell Beasts and Fair and A Punk Rock Future.
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