First sentence: "Stan opens the large green locker and stows away the clothes he's been wearing: the shorts, the T-shirts, the jeans, the summer stuff."Last sentence: "Yours is the red one now."From GoodReads: The gated community of Consilience isn’t your average American town, but in a near future ...
Short stories are always at risk of sacrificing characterisation and actual story in order to meet the needs of the format, and to explain the idea within the word count allowed. Unfortunately, as is often the case, this seems to have happened here too.Which is a shame, as the premise of the story i...