Santiago: a Myth of the Far Future
“ Moonripple, Moonripple, touring the stars, Has polished the wax on a thousand bars, Has trod on the soil of a hundred worlds, Has found only pebbles while searching for pearls.
Beneath the grease stains and the tattered clothes, she was actually, quite a pretty girl. She had blue eyes that had seen too many things and shed too many tears, square shoulders that had borne too many burdens, slender fingers that would have been soft and white in a gentler life.
If she had any name other than Mo...onripple, she couldn’t remember it. If she had ever called any world home, she couldn’t remember it, either.
She was nineteen years old, and she had already met Black Orpheus four times. He even began joking that he’d wander into the least likely bar on the least likely planet he could think of, and there would be Moonripple, scrubbing floors, cleaning tables, or washing dishes. The highlight of her brief life was the single verse he created about her one evening on Voorhite XIV, when he was playing his lute and singing his ballad to keep his mind off the storm that was raging through the chlorine atmosphere just beyond the human colony’s domed enclosure.MoreLess
Beneath the grease stains and the tattered clothes, she was actually, quite a pretty girl. She had blue eyes that had seen too many things and shed too many tears, square shoulders that had borne too many burdens, slender fingers that would have been soft and white in a gentler life.
If she had any name other than Mo...onripple, she couldn’t remember it. If she had ever called any world home, she couldn’t remember it, either.
She was nineteen years old, and she had already met Black Orpheus four times. He even began joking that he’d wander into the least likely bar on the least likely planet he could think of, and there would be Moonripple, scrubbing floors, cleaning tables, or washing dishes. The highlight of her brief life was the single verse he created about her one evening on Voorhite XIV, when he was playing his lute and singing his ballad to keep his mind off the storm that was raging through the chlorine atmosphere just beyond the human colony’s domed enclosure.MoreLess
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