Remembering Turinam

"Remembering Turinam" tells the tale of Salai, a scholar-monk who lives in Turinam, a colonized territory occupied by the Rytari Republic. Salai returns to his childhood home to reconcile with his dying grandfather, who fought in defense of Turinam during the Rytari invasion many decades ago. He comes with turbulent questions — he leaves with a mission.

The Future Fire published this story as part of the colonialism-themed, speculative fiction anthology "We See A Different Frontier" in September 2013. This short story received an honorable mention in Gardner Dozois’s "The Year’s Best Science Fiction, Thirty First Edition".