First Paragraphs—Nothing

Nothing is the second short story in An Anthology of Those Who Walk Among Us, the third Simpson Anthology, and it starts like this:
It was dawn on the prairie. The sun rose, red-gold, in a sea of pale blue sky, and was reflected in apricots and peaches on a sea of ice-green grass. The soft morning wind did nothing to ease the winter cold from the air.
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Nothing is a science fiction tale in which humans and shapeshifters find themselves locked in a battle for supremacy after a colony ship crashes. Nothing is approximately 1,250 words in length.