The Chule

Setting up a quiet, simple colony on planet Barchime should be idyllic.Eliza, Della and the others have high ideals.Sparsely populated, the gorgeous planet offers everything they need.But when something riles up some local wildlife, the simple life might just come to an endA very sudden end. Sean Monaghan is the author of more than one hundred stories, in print, online, on broadcast radio and podcast. His stories include "Concentration" in Landfall, and "The Molenstraat Music Festival" in Asimovs. He was the Grand Prize winner in the 2014 Jim Baen Memorial Writing Contest for his story "Low Arc"