by Melanie Edmonds
Ship’s log, 17:00, 10 March 2214 Location: Offshore docking, Hong Kong, Earth Status: Docked and powered down It’s been a full day now. Over 24 hours since John stepped out of my airlock and he’s still not back. If I could, I’d pace. As it is, if I get too antsy, I just wind […]
Ship’s log, 19:24, 12 March 2214 Location: Offshore docking, Hong Kong, Earth Status: Docked and powered down Three days. I can’t believe it’s been three whole days. I’m nervous. Which is silly: I have no reason to be nervous. I’ve been trying to keep busy and productive. I’ve picked apart Cameron’s package and spread […]
Captain’s log, 11:18, 14 March 2214 Location: Offshore docking, Hong Kong, Earth Status: Docked and powered down This is Captain Warwick reporting. Considering what we plan to do, I’m not sure who these reports are for any more. Posterity, perhaps? I don’t know, but I’m sure they’ll be of use to someone somewhere, when […]
Ship’s log, 11:52, 14 March 2214 Location: Offshore docking, Hong Kong, Earth Status: Docked and powered down It’s hard to hide the skirls of fear in my down-low ducts. Things were going so well. Our plans were working. For once, nothing was going wrong, no unexpected secrets rising to the surface to poison us. […]
Ship’s log, 20:32, 14 March 2214 Location: Near Venus, Home System Status: Sublight transit I’ve left Earth behind. I’ve shaken the planet off my metal feet and pulled out of her atmosphere like a chick pecking its way out of an egg. It has shrunk in my rear sensors, beyond the glow of my […]
Ship’s log, 21:10, 14 March 2214 Location: 3 light-minutes from Terra Sol, Home System Status: Sublight transit I’m flying towards the heart of an explosion, and I’d be lying if I said this wasn’t fun. The explosion is done now but its remains are still spreading out in a ragged halo, pinging in energetic […]
Ship’s log, 21:23, 14 March 2214 Location: 5 light-minutes from Terra Sol, Home System Status: Sublight transit There are two escape pods sitting in my cargo bay. They’re three metres long and two wide, big enough to hold three people each, or four at a squeeze. Both of them have the name Firebird emblazoned […]
Ship’s log, 21:57, 14 March 2214 Location: 7 light-minutes from Terra Sol, Home System Status: Sublight transit This can’t be happening. I can’t have just scored my own paint to rescue the person responsible for all the bad things in my short life. And yet here she is: Kess, the one who hired Hunt […]