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Borrowed Gravity

In Lowfield everything weighs sixty per cent, and you are the one who keeps it that way. The anchor is drifting.

warm · physical · wry · pressured · Medium, about 30 scenes

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Ren, Ren, forty-four, the city's field technician of record for the Lowfield cells, who signs the monthly anchor condition report and rents the flat above Orr's bakery

How it begins

In Lowfield flour took its time falling, children caught paper cups behind their backs, and builders whistled under loads that would have folded them anywhere else in the city. All of it weighed sixty per cent, and one technician kept it so, from a yellow hatch in a bakery wall. On the last Tuesday in April a notice went to every shop and flat in the low blocks saying all of it would stop in the first week of July.

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