Survival has a cost. None knows this better than the man styling himself Lou Jackson – who may not be a man at all.
When Jackson takes an innocent child into the desert under the guide of a religious rite of passage, she will be changed in ways no one ever imagined.
Is this an abomination, or the last hope for the survival of a dying species?
Read this story in the second issue of Compelling Science Fiction.
C. L. Kagmi 