Escape Pod 775: Spaceship October
Spaceship October By Greg van Eekhout When you live on a spaceship, you learn to make your own fun. Exploring the tunnels is some of the very best fun the October’s got. After school hour, me and Droller go scuttling through the darkest conduits you ever will find. The starboard Hab gets minimal heat, so our breath clouds in the light of our head torches as we crawl on our hands and knees. “You hear that?” Droller whispers from a couple of meters ahead. I do hear it, a deep, wet wheezing that…
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