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Episode 22: Decolonizing

January 30, 2020Fictionthe-daily-drabble

Decolonizing She was a seventh-generation Martian. Her colonizing ancestors had come to Mars from Ohio, by way of some forgotten somewhere else. She no longer resembled that pale and lanky couple. She was squat, orange of skin, thick of bone, and vulnerable to their diseases. She and fellow Martians resented the implication that they should welcome new, obnoxious colonizers, and so staged a united rebellion. They turned off the radios. Let the Earthbound think they’d succumbed to something deadly. And when fresh capsules plopped down on their planet, they pummeled them to keep themselves quarantined from invasive microbes and Midwestern accents.

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