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The Peacemaker by Gardner Dozois. Short story about a future America where a boy whose family fled flooding on the East Coast is settled as a refugee in a Colorado town where a church has all the power, and they think child sacrifices are necessary to appease God. I thought it would be good to include as it does an excellent job building up the bleakness, plus the quality of the writing won a Nebula award. The story builds to the child being sacrificed willingly in an attempt to help their crops. Stand out dialogue when he's remembering his dog: quote:A dog was barking out there now, somewhere out across the fields toward town, but it was not his dog. His dog was dead, long since dead, and its whitening skull was rolling along the ocean floor with the tides that washed over what had once been Brigantine, New Jersey, three hundred feet down. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4289205-the-peacemaker Would probably put it on layer 1?
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