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    Microbiota and the Masses: A Love Story: A Tor.com Original
    Microbiota and the Masses: A Love Story: A Tor.com Original
    Microbiota and the Masses: A Love Story: A Tor.com Original
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    Microbiota and the Masses: A Love Story: A Tor.com Original

    By S. B. Divya

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    Moena lives in a world of her own making, sealed off from the deadly pathogens of Bangalore in her own personal biome. But when she meets Rahul, a beautiful man working to clean up his city, her need for him draws her into danger. She will risk her health and her work to satisfy her lust for Rahul, and may find love along the way... in S.B. Divya's Microbiota and the Masses, a Tor.com Original.

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Publishers
    Release dateJan 11, 2017
    ISBN9780765393036
    Microbiota and the Masses: A Love Story: A Tor.com Original
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    S. B. Divya

    S. B. Divya is a lover of science, math, fiction, and the Oxford comma. She enjoys subverting expectations and breaking stereotypes whenever she can. In her past, she’s used a telescope to find Orion’s nebula, scuba dived with manta rays, and climbed to the top of a thousand year old stupa. She is the author of Runtime.

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      The scents of earth—loam, pollen, compost, the exhalation of leaves—permeated the inside of Moena Sivaram’s airtight home. She stood near the southeast corner and misted the novice bromeliads. The epiphytes clutched the trunk of an elephant ear tree, its canopy stretching up to the clear, SmartWindow-paned roof and shading everything below.

      Moena whispered to the plants: Amma’s here, little babies. You’re safe with me, but you must grow those roots. With her isolated life, these would be her only children.

      She walked barefoot to the sunny citrus grove in the western side of the house. The soil beneath her feet changed from cool and moist to hard and gritty. eBees buzzed among the flowers. She hummed in harmony, a Carnatic song about love birds that was a century old. The heady perfume of orange and lime blossoms filled her up and made her blood sing along. This was home; this, and not the traditional jasmine and rose gardens of Bangalore; this, where her eyes didn’t water nor her nose itch.

      Diffuse sunlight shone through the SmartWindows paneling the walls. One rectangle stuck out like a cloudy diamond in an

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