Journey Home
At about 1,300 words, this is a short-short. So there’s not a lot of room for anything here.
Writing wise, it’s pretty good, but I wonder if there’s a bunch of unclosed italic tag errors in the manuscript. There’s some decent chunks that are italic for unclear reasons. It seems like it may be meant to show character thoughts from in-viewpoint, but that’s not always true. My instinct from other books is that it’s meant to designate telepathy, but that’s not right either.
We have two characters, plus just a little more, in a partially-defined science-fantasy future (literally, we’ve gotten to the stars, but it largely seems to be through magic). Much of the story references the Solar System, but we have a Dragon Queen who as a plot point started on Earth and went elsewhere.
Okay, magic and dragons, so other fantasy elements are possible, but not mentioned. Though I suppose some people seem to regard a close platonic relationship as fantasy.
So this is a character piece of two aroace women in a close relationship and then a spot of adventure happens. There’s also some wish-fulfillment of getting away from rent.
Even as such, it’s not entirely successful, as the two main characters don’t show any really distinctive traits. On the other hand, they do get to show they care for each other. The ending is a bit sudden, and this could easily expand into something more on the “found family” genre if it kept going.

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