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Escape Pod 998: The Carina Nebula

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The Carina Nebula By Kelsey Hutton I heard the soft shit shit shit just when I’d almost floated past the blue hatch door that led into some kind of storage room. I had to laugh. I mean, how many times have I said that? Plus the voice sounded older, a woman’s, and I love when adults just say what they mean, instead of carefully guarding every word around “the kids.” I wasn’t really doing much, just wandering through some of the ship’s back tunnels. So I reached out right before momentum took me…

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