Siobhan Dempsey

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“The Grand Tour” by Siobhan Dempsey

Submitted to Contest #67

The Grand Tour. Captain Hendry took the opportunity of the trip from ship to market to lecture me on the item we hoped to precure. I feigned interest, as is the polite thing to do, nodding at appropriate times. ‘The Bromillian Core is grown rather than manufactured. It starts life as an imperfection, a stray grain of pollen or some such that lands on the bark of a tree in the jungle colony, much like a grain of sand in an oyster creates a pearl.’ Hendry liked to use these obscure references, I acted as if I knew what he was talking about. ‘T...

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