Upon the Lonesome Wild
By Kate Macleod
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They travelled for generations to reach this planet, to turn it into a bread basket for the universe. Rich soil, abundant sun and rain, a perfect site for agricultural colonization.
But nothing grows, and no one knows why. A generation raised to become the forefathers of millions now ages alone, their children forced to move on to better prospects.
Enid's husband thinks she imagines things, things that move through the corn that surrounds their farm. He blames her long hours alone and gives her a puppy to be her companion, guard and protector.
But the puppy senses things lurking just outside their farm too.
"Upon the Lonesome Wild", a science fiction short story about the cost of family moving away from each other at relativistic speeds.
Kate Macleod
Dr. Kate MacLeod is an innovative inclusive educator, researcher, and author. She began her career as a high school special education teacher in New York City and now works as faculty in the college of education at the University of Maine Farmington and as an education consultant with Inclusive Schooling. She has spent 15 years studying inclusive practices and supporting school leaders and educators to feel prepared and inspired to include all learners.
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UPON THE LONESOME WILD
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UPON THE LONESOME WILD
The house is too quiet at night these days. Instead of the sounds of my children breathing, snoring, stirring restlessly in their beds I hear things moving through the fields outside. Slow sinuous things stirring the leaves on the tall stalks, larger rushing things that shake the ears of corn and great tromping things that snap the stalks themselves.
I stop telling my husband what I hear in the night. He still insists the only living things on this planet are what we brought with us. Rats tagged along, they always do, he said, but what I'm hearing is not rats.
And the soft whispering movements that I have to strain to hear are more frightening than the stomping destruction. They get closer to our little house, every night a little closer.
Most mornings I wake far too early, before the sun has even risen. My husband is already up and gone, tinkering in his shed until there is enough light to start working in the fields. My days have too much time to fill