Beachworld

Published in the Fall 1984 issue of Weird Tales.

Republished in Lightspeed, Oct. 2010.

FedShip ASN/29 fell out of the sky and crashed. After a while two men slipped from its cloven skull like brains. They walked a little way and then stood, helmets beneath their arms, and looked at where they had finished up. It was a beach in no need of an ocean—it was its own ocean, a sculpted sea of sand, a black-and-white-snapshot sea frozen forever in troughs and crests and more troughs and crests. Dunes.

Audience
adult
Length
short · 20 pages

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