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The return of the wanderer -- but it ends in tragedy. He's rescued one of his sisters, but the other is already dead. And their pursuers deliver him wounds from which even a trained physician cannot save him. The intruders had far too much money for ordinary people, suggesting they're scions of wealth or are into illegal activities -- or both.
— Oct 09, 2026 11:59AM
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Leigh Kimmel
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The concern that a young doctor hanging out his shingle must have something wrong with him -- young doctors typically are hired by the company towns, because it gives their families guaranteed physical and financial security. But Lauren will not leave Acorn -- it's a community of people who've saved each other.
— 38 minutes ago
Leigh Kimmel
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The formal Welcoming of Larkin, their daughter (who's looking back in the framing narrative).
— 18 hours, 49 min ago
Leigh Kimmel
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Acorn undergoes a split, as one family decides to leave with Marc. Given that we know Lauren Olamina will die, leaving her child to be brought up by someone else, it's hard not to wonder how this rupture feeds into that disaster.
— Oct 08, 2026 04:44PM
Leigh Kimmel
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Lauren struggles with contradictory pulls -- stability in town vs the community she's building in Acorn. Marco wants to preach a sermon -- and immediately runs into the very different mindset of the Acorn community. And all this is in the past -- and we know Lauren will die, and wonder which of these events will build toward it.
— Oct 07, 2026 06:49PM
Leigh Kimmel
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Marc tells how he fell into the hands of slavers, and confesses that he now thinks of himself by the family name of the couple who took him in.
— Sep 29, 2026 06:59PM
Leigh Kimmel
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How Marc followed in his father's footsteps and became the preacher for a makeshift church under an old carport -- and the horrors that arose when the city fathers decided to clean out all the poor people
— Sep 28, 2026 11:40AM
Leigh Kimmel
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A story of survival in an incredibly perilous world -- and then the town fathers decide to clear out the riff-raff.
— Sep 27, 2026 01:05PM
Leigh Kimmel
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The horror of the destruction of Lauren's childhood community, from a different perspective that makes us realize just how lucky she was, compared to the rest of her family.
— Sep 26, 2026 09:05PM
Leigh Kimmel
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Struggling to get people to move away from dangerous cliffs, after several members of their community died when the land under their homes was washed away.
— Sep 25, 2026 08:58PM
Leigh Kimmel
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Lauren rescues her brother from duress vile, but Dan fails to find his kidnapped sisters, and in despair flees. Now we also have the writings of Lauren's brother Marcos, in addition to the framing story of her child. It's a very different feeling from Parable of the Sower.
— Sep 24, 2026 09:49AM