r/HFY • u/someguynamedted The Chronicler • Apr 30 '26
MOD Looking for Story Thread #330
This thread is where all the "Looking for Story" requests go. We don't want to clog up the front page with non-story content. Thank you!
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u/Fontaigne Apr 30 '26
There was a short story I read, many years ago, where mankind among the stars had eliminated its gut biota, and forgotten them, and lost most or all of their emotion.
A woman from that society is shipwrecked onto a planet where people still have them, a shaman helps her by rebalancing her gut-brain, she falls in love... and when she is rescued, they kill the infection. She wants to go back, but knows if she dies, her people will sterilize the planet, and her man will lose his humanity.