Rock-Adda's World - Chloe Smith

Metaphorosis magazine - beautifully written science fiction and fantasy

Adda Oram’s spent years devoted to her research, stationed in the northern reaches of a half-settled world, trying to understand the alien “whales of stone.” As long as she can’t prove that they are sentient beings, their very existence is under threat—and right now, Adda can’t even make the one person who cares about her the most understand what’s at stake….

Narrated by host Matt Gomez.
Published in Metaphorosis on 12 February 2021.
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