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The Kite Maker

By Brenda Peynado
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Publisher Description

The Kite Maker is Brenda Peynado's science fiction novelette of how humans cope with alien contact.

After aliens arrive on earth, humans do the unthinkable out of fear. When an alien walks into a human kite maker's store, coveting her kites, the human struggles with her guilt over her part in the alien massacres, while neo-Nazis draw a violent line between alien and human.

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“I love this so much. It's beautiful and profound, the story about seeking for forgiveness and those who think that forgiveness is not something to be freely asked nor given. Damn powerful.”

About Brenda Peynado

Brenda Peynado's stories have won an O. Henry Prize, the Chicago Tribune's Nelson Algren Award, a Dana Award, a Fulbright Grant to the Dominican Republic, a Vermont Studio Center Residency, and other prizes. Her work appears in The Georgia Review, Daily Science Fiction, The Sun, The Kenyon Review Online, Prairie Schooner, The Threepenny Review, and other journals. She received her MFA at Florida State University and her PhD at the University of Cincinnati. She teaches screenwriting, fiction writing, and worldbuilding at the University of Central Florida. She is the author of The Kite Maker, a Tor.com Original.

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