Short Fiction · Character
Tom Morrison
A sunburned young prospector who staked everything on Venus's Scorpion Desert, Morrison dreams of a goldenstone strike and an ocean farm back on Earth.
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Also known as Tommy, Tom
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A determined prospector on Venus who risks everything to find goldenstone, defying warnings and debt.
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Morrison has spent twenty-one days and eighteen hundred miles crossing a waterless waste three times the size of the Sahara, down to his last ten dollars and following traces of goldenstone. He daydreams about Janie and…
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- Escalation
- Breaking point
- Aftermath
- Closing
This is the dramatic climax because Morrison reaches the psychological breaking point of his twenty-first day…
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