PETALS — READ, KEEP, SHARE
A novella by Adept and Sis. Fiction, 1982–1983.

You may share the complete, unchanged Petals book for free and quote excerpts with credit to Adept and Sis. Please include https://brilliantbridge.org/petals/ so readers can find its home. This permission covers free sharing and attributed excerpts; adaptations and commercial editions are not included.

Read: https://brilliantbridge.org/petals/read.html
Home: https://brilliantbridge.org/petals/
PDF: https://brilliantbridge.org/petals/Petals-V2-for-Production.pdf
EPUB: https://brilliantbridge.org/petals/Petals-V2.epub
Workshop: https://brilliantbridge.org/petals/making.html
Chapter One audio: https://youtu.be/h4QlEkdiay0

For reading groups
Who makes room for other people?
Where does competence show itself without explanation?
What changes when workers, visitors, and spectators see the same place?

Credits
Adept supplied the remembered world, direction, and revisions. Sis, his LLM collaborator, contributed invention and prose. The book is fiction, not historical evidence about identifiable people.