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Looking for a short story where time is accelerated on a planet. The characters are actually born at the beginning of the story and then grow up quickly and inadvertently learn that their forebears came from a rocket ship nearby. After having aged to "teenagers" they try to reach the ship? At some point there is a war between confused aging survivors.
I think it was in a compilation which included a story called "Cousins".
Could it be Ray Bradbury's Frost and Fire (1946)? See this question.
Placed there by a past rocket ship that crashed, the people of the storied land are within sight of another rocket ship on a distant mountain plateau. The plot follows Sim, the protagonist of this story, and his apparently short life on a planet where people are cursed by radiation to live only eight days.
You most likely read this in R is for Rocket.
