We Asked For Miracles On A Distant World. The Things That Delivered Them Were Not Human
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A failing colony on a distant world builds its chapel around an ancient black stone, its top worn into two smooth hollows by knees no one can account for. After forty nights of unanswered prayer, the chaplain who talked thirty-four families out of Kansas kneels there to beg for rain. Before dawn, silver shapes come down out of the hills on their knees, and rain falls on the fields and nowhere else.
The stone grants one prayer a night, exactly as spoken. Soon the whole settlement lines up at sunset with its sentences rehearsed, and the chaplain, desperate to protect the people who followed him, becomes the man who trims their words so nothing loose slips through. The kneeling things carry out every answer to the letter, and one stumbled word can cost a man the wife he knelt to save.
Each morning the colony learns whose prayer was chosen, and each night the line grows longer. Bound to the stone by hunger, faith, and guilt, the chaplain must decide what he is still willing to ask of it, and what he will let his people ask, while the things in the hills keep coming down to answer.
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