Another story with a past! "Child of Sky and Earth," just published by the wonderful Persimmon Tree, in their Spring 2022 issue, began life as a sequel to "When Bluejay Stole the Moon." Jodi and Quinn in the first story have morphed into Josie and Clary (aka the unsympathetic Clarence, the "big-deal" Project Director) in this.
The main impetus was my fascination with the telescopes on Mauna Kea, and the inherent conflict just exactly there.
"Many Hawaiians feel this place must be returned to the ancestral gods. That scientists and their construction sites have desecrated the summit—forbidden to all but the highest chiefs or priests." Atop the desecrated mountain now, defiant, stood the thirteen telescopes, probing and unrobing the skies.
"But nowhere else is it this clear. No other instruments are this precise and powerful."
image: Telescopes on Mauna Kea, Honolulu Star-Advertisor
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