Chapters tagged swallow

Chapter 14

Raynor Schwartz was scandalized. “No, of course not! She was my student Eric, that would be wrong.” “Not even once?” “No.” Eric Alain looked skeptically at Schwartz. The two had been having breakfast together when Ramona Wagner came up. “So let me get this straight,” he said...

Chapter 21

Hans Hermann was irritated. The waiting was annoying sure, the shift work, exhausting, but the thing that irritated him was the fact that they were doing it in the first place. The others had been euphoric about the North Pole, but most of them wouldn’t even see it! It seemed so…...

Chapter 26

Seeing other people again was strange for Sam Hayden. There were so many around him, and it made him feel paralyzingly awkward. It was the final medical evaluation before liftoff, and after this, back into quarantine. The medical staff were the only ones allowed to break quaranti...

Chapter 33

Pamala Sheldon stretched and yawned in her sleeping bag. The long narrow room of the Hermes was quiet but for the incessant clicking of the dosimeter. The sensor was set up in the common area outside the radiation shielding and had been reporting lethal radiation doses in a mere...

Chapter 36

“As you know,” Tara Dayton told her assembled crew, “the Green Mars Corp was attacked yesterday by mercenaries working for SpaceY. So far, at least twenty people have been reported as dead.” A shocked murmur spread through the listeners. Sam Hayden was sure he could see nervousn...

Chapter 39

Pamala Sheldon brushed her brown hair back from her face, then unlocked her intercom to check her messages. Joe: Tell me about last time. She rolled her eyes. This game the two of them were playing was getting a little frustrating. Getting close to the crewmembers on ship had t...

Chapter 60

Sam Hayden felt confused and conflicted, and the longer he dwelt on it, the worse it got. He was a scientist to be sure, but the scientific process wasn’t his primary focus: he was a device builder, and planner, and a designer. An inventor, not a research scientist. Yet the feel...