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The Need for Air
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A mother. A son. A virtual world they both share where each could live forever and achieve their fullest potential. Until one of them decides that isn't enough for life.
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“what if you’re not satisfied with utopia, with immortality, with perfection? a mother who heavily cossets her son and is content with the idyllic, digitally-programmed world they live in, struggles to keep him close when he wants out of their bubble and into the real, mortal plane. read this for free on tor.com!
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what if you’re not satisfied with utopia, with immortality, with perfection? a mother who heavily cossets her son and is content with the idyllic, digitally-programmed world they live in, struggles to keep him close when he wants out of their bubble and into the real, mortal plane. read this for free on tor.com!”
“1.7 Woah talk about dystopian! No thanks. Good thing it was short. The story needed better character development. The plot also felt pushed. I get the author was trying to state a point but it was done abruptly.”
About Lettie Prell
LETTIE PRELL's short fiction has appeared in Apex Magazine, Analog Science Fiction & Fact, Best of Apex Magazine anthology, Paranormal Underground, Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, StarShipSofa podcast, and elsewhere. Her previous Tor.com short story, The Three Lives of Sonota James, was selected as part of Tor.com's "Best of" anthology for 2016. She is also the author of the novel Dragon Ring.
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