Winter's Flight by Susan Jane Bigelow (The Extrahuman Union #3.5)
Winter’s Flight by Susan Jane Bigelow 5,805 Words A short story set in the Extrahuman Union universe, taking place after The Spark (book 3) and before the start of Extrahumans (book 4) by Susan Jane Bigelow. New York had frozen. Penny Silverwing looked out over the city, her breath coming out in white puffs, as she hovered inches above the roof of the abandoned hotel on the Greenpoint waterfront where she lived. The sun was beginning to set; soon it would be gone entirely and another frigid night would begin. The cold settled deep in her bones. When she’d first lived on the streets decades ago, the winters in New York had been much warmer. Now that climate controls had had finally cooled a dangerously chaotic, warming planet it was nearly unbearable. Once the sun set she’d be able to fly. She had contraband to deliver: drugs, weapons, books, that sort of thing. There were people who paid good money for someone who could dart high above the clouds where no one was looking. They weren’t exactly good people, but the work kept her in food and battery charges for her tiny underpowered space heater. The gig also let her […]
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