The Notebook of My Favourite Skin Trees by Alex Dally MacFarlane « Biology in Science Fiction: Free Fiction

A young woman makes notes on people’s skin trees.

Title: The Notebook of My Favourite Skin Trees

Author: Alex Dally MacFarlane

Length: short story

First Publication: DayBreak Magazine, 2010

What the Story is About: A young woman makes notes on people’s skin trees.

She stopped every person with a skin-tree in the walking street market, to ask if they’d noticed strange discolourations on their leaves. “There is a sickness,” she said, putting urgency into the phrase she now knew in many languages, not just her native Vietnamese and second tongue English, “and it’s important to collect samples and data.”

Includes a Google map showing the locations in the story.

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