A short story in three parts
Part Three: Ella
Her name was Ella Mbaye, and she lived on the edge of what had once been a great forest. The forest was thinner now. The rivers ran hotter, and the rains came in shouts, not songs.
She was twelve years old, home-schooled, under solar lamps when they worked, and through blackout silence when they didn’t. Her mother taught her biology. Her father taught her how to fix things when there were no parts to fix them with. Ella herself liked books about stars, though they felt a long way off these days.
The world, everyone said, was tired.
Then the sky dropped something.
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