In the canon
The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
- Form
- Form Short Story
- Year
- Year 1973
- Pages
- Pages 8
A shining city's perfect happiness depends, by some arrangement no one questions aloud, on one child kept in filth and darkness; some citizens go to see the child, and quietly leave.
But they seem to know where they are going, the ones who walk away from Omelas.
The blurb, the gist, the why of the day and the work itself are in the app. The first button needs it on this device; the second gets it there.