My current Work in Progress (WIP to writers) is an SF novel with the working title Myr. Whilst that progresses (I'm in the first draft of Chapter 6), I found I needed more and more of the 'back story' of this accidental, isolated human colony. Before I knew it, I was outlining a novella to provide that background. The novella's working title is The Periclese (the name of the shipwrecked colony ship).

I'm writing this in parallel with Myr. Chapter 1 is nearing completion, but earlier this month I had to write something about 'smells' as homework for the writers group I'm in. I immediately started thinking about what it would be like to be the first human to take a breath of the air on a new planet ... and the snippet below from a later chapter is the result.

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Robert
Brisbane, Australia.