Read Moonkids

Tue 30 Oct 2018 - Filed under: Not a Journal., | Posted by: Gavin

by Abbey Mei Otis. Now online at The Offing:

No denying it, though. Moonkids, they’re kind of stubby.
On account of them growing up on the moon. Your muscles
learn differently in moon gravity. Your bones form light like
a bird’s. Used to not even be possible to make the transition,
you’d touch down into earthpull and collapse like fast-melting
candles. Too many fractures for all the king’s horses and all the
king’s men. Way, way too many for Earth doctors to deal with.
(Earth doctors are known for not giving a shit.) Now, though,
they’ve got ways around it. They’ve got operations and stuff.
Every moonkid’s got incision scars in the same places.
Colleen likes that her friend Tesla works for Suzo too. Tesla
got promoted to assistant manager a couple weeks ago, because
she’s so bomb with the business side of things. Encouragement
is good for Tesla. The people side of things, she has more trouble
with.