Prairie Sun
- Eloi Silver Medal
- by Edward Bryant
- Short Story
- Science Fiction
- Adults
- Definite Time Travel
- English
- “Prairie Sun” by Edward Bryant, Omni, October 1980.
On the Oregon trail west of Laramie in 1850, 13-year-old Micah Taverner asks two scavenger men from the future to cure his sister Annie from the smallpox.
Janet and I heard this read by James Whiteman in 2004 at a series of dramatic readings called Colorado Homegrown Tales. The other stories at the February session were “Hungry” by Steve Rasnic Tem, “The Dream of Houses” by Wil McCarthy, and my own “Childrey Green” read by Debbie Knapp.
Janet and I heard this read by James Whiteman in 2004 at a series of dramatic readings called Colorado Homegrown Tales. The other stories at the February session were “Hungry” by Steve Rasnic Tem, “The Dream of Houses” by Wil McCarthy, and my own “Childrey Green” read by Debbie Knapp.
The road was lined with all manner of belongings thrown away by the exhausted, overburdened men and women barely halfway along their arduous journey.
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- “Prairie Sun” by Edward Bryant, Omni, October 1980.