Once upon a time there was a King and a Queen who loved each other with all their hearts and wanted to have a child. Soon they had the great joy of welcoming into the world a very pretty little girl ... [+]
Rodrigo is a Chilean architect, designer, and web developer. He has published in Nature, Levar Burton Reads, Future Science Fiction Digest, khōréō among others. He misses his Commodore 64. Pronouns he/him/él. SFWA | Codex | ALCiFF On Bluesky as @culagovski.net "The Color Out of License" is in Short Circuit #15, Short Édition's quarterly review.
I placed the shiny red shape in the exact center of the table.
Martín looked at it dubiously. "That's the strangest cherry I've ever seen. Whoever made it needs to get their printer calibrated, it's all lopsided." He crouched down to get closer look. "The color's amazing though—rich and deep, like food in videos about the uppers."
I winced inwardly. You weren't supposed to talk about the different levels of society—you had to act like everybody was the same, or you could get fined. I pretended not to notice. "It wasn't printed, it was grown."
"I didn't know you could grow food." He