Today’s free story, thanks to Amazon’s Kindle Select program, is “The Ashes of His Fathers.”  It’s set in the year 2999, when a representative of a distant religious colony world returns to Earth with the ashes of the original colonists.

The story is available free from Amazon’s Kindle store until about midnight Pacific Time tonight, but you don’t need a Kindle to read it. You can use the free Kindle app on your computer or smartphone.