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Yet Another Crisis

November 11, 2019 6 Comments

Yet Another Crisis
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The engineer worked with a tiny flashlight between her teeth. Oxygen deprivation turned her eyelids heavy. She’d die, and take the whole generation ship with her.

Her eyes blinked closed, but she jolted awake when the wires burned her fingers, accidentally fused two ends of the glowing blue wire. She hurriedly freed it from the power relay, hope welling inside of her.

Desperately reckless, she bypassed the anti-grav panel and completed the circuit.

The overhead lights flickered.

She waited, anticipating the crash into dead blackness. The milliseconds ticked into seconds, and the ship’s power ticked on.

Crisis averted. For now.

By Katlina Sommerberg

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  1. Karisa Moore says

    November 11, 2019 at 9:06 am

    I am so there! You draw us into the crisis and I am rooting for the heroine and sucking in a desperate breath with her. Well done.

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  2. Adelaide says

    November 11, 2019 at 9:28 am

    Saved! we can breathe now. I see this as a chapter in a preteen novel.

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  3. Shoshauna Shy says

    November 11, 2019 at 11:14 am

    Dynamite snippet!

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  4. Angie says

    November 11, 2019 at 12:44 pm

    Good build up of tension and I love the phrase ‘desperately reckless’ – well done.

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  5. Carol says

    November 12, 2019 at 10:54 am

    This is a nice tight scene. I see it as a piece of a longer work. I don’t get a sense of where they are or why there is this crisis. Maybe give the engineer a name so that we feel as if we know her.

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  6. Mary E Falkner says

    November 15, 2019 at 11:22 pm

    Hope you write full length book … excellent.

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