This ebook may not be resold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please lend or purchase and additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author. “Fade Away and Radiate" first appeared in the Mammoth Book of Futuristic Romance (Running Press, Robinson UK 2013). Please check out the other stories in the collection! The only woman on an uninhabitable planet listened to the wail of the nightwind, alone in a research hut in the dead of the night. She studied her data outputs, and tried like hell not to think of Roberto. Because thinking of Roberto got her thinking about why she’d come to this desolate place. And thinking of her self-exile made her think of the man she was running away from… There was a knock on the door. It was the moment she had imagined a million times with dread, and yet now that it had come, she wasn’t ready.
