Everything That Isn't Winter: A Tor.Com Original

By Margaret Killjoy

Does a renewed world still have a place for those who only know how to destroy? While defending a tea-growing commune in the wilds of the Pacific Northwest, one person seeks an answer.

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Macmillan Publishers
• Release date: Oct 19, 2016
• ISBN: 9780765390509

Margaret Killjoy

Margaret Killjoy is a transfeminine author, born and raised in Maryland, who has spent her adult life traveling with no fixed home. A 2015 graduate of Clarion West, Margaret’s short fiction has been published by Tor.com, Strange Horizons, Vice’s Terraform, and Fireside Fiction amongst others. She is the author of The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion and The Barrow Will Send What It May. She is also the host of two podcasts, Live Like the World Is Dying and the fiction podcast We Will Remember Freedom.

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The evening sky was a spring gray, which is different than a winter gray, and the soft light that came down through the clouds lit up the festival. Fires danced, and people danced, and my boyfriend was dancing with a woman who was there to work the harvest. They were hitting it off, it looked like. Everything was perfect in what was left of the world.

At the In-Between Lodge, we picked most of our tea leaves on Beltane. Traditionally, the first flush is in March and the second is in June. But traditionally, tea was imported from Asia, and obviously we haven’t had contact with anywhere that far away in decades. So while we do a modest first flush and second flush, most of what we grow is what you’d call Darjeeling In-Between. We grow it in the middle of what used to be called Washington State, so it’s not really Darjeeling at all, just In-Between.

I sipped from a ceramic cup