There was a world wide disaster, magnetic storms and atmospheric inversions have been mentioned, two or three generations ago. Small groups survived because they had access to the right sort of protected facility, the right skill sets or good luck. The survivors still tend to be quite specialised groups trading on the advantages that allowed ( Read more... )

I wrote this to Anonymous' prompt "A story about a society where only one sibling is ever allowed to have children." It runs to 382 words.

“We chose Luddy to have the children to avoid this problem,” said Nyix angrily. “She’s supposed to the best gene structure of us all. Or is the problem developmental or teratogenic instead of genetic?”

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