Tag: Captive Orbit

Three soft high tones alternated with three slightly lower ones; not loud or obnoxious but definitely insistent.  Amanda blinked away the sleep from her eyes.  She was slumped against the door, the bedcover wrapped around her.  She’d tried sleeping in the bed but planetside gravity made her want to hurl whenever she lay flat for…

It was quiet and still when she awoke.  Very still.  Something was very wrong.  There was no hiss and hum of life support felt all wrong, too close, the wrong pitch, there was far more of a whine than there should be.  There was an awful taste in her mouth, and her body ached in…

She ran through the open hatchway and practically slammed into the bulkhead, dumping her bag as she did.  Reorienting herself she turned on the run and headed for the cockpit, slapping the hatch closure button on her way through.  What followed was a practised leap that took her legs up over the back of the…