Alphabet Soup

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Earth's only child

Earth's only child

The opening scene of a sci-fi series that will probably never be made | Fiction | Fresh Soup

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Sometimes I get an idea for a story, and at the very same moment I also understand that I will never write it. It could be because of the scope of the idea, or a gut feeling that I'll never find the right tone and pacing. Most of these ideas I just let go, but there are a few that keep nagging. "Earth's Only Child" came from the idea of a world in which…

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