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Marooned

Tom Ball

    And so it was that the three girls and I were marooned on a remote moon without any long distance communication devices

    We existed in a tiny pod where there was barely enough room to move. But we could recycle air and waste so we could stay alive.

    One girl said they must have really hated us to deny us the basic right to entertainment. We didn’t have any entertainment as they had removed the consoles from the escape pod which is what we were in. And there were no drugs.

    We were all specialized and useless in this dry desert moon.

    In time we grew to hate each other but above all we were bored. We all kept journals hoping to sell them if we were ever rescued. But no one knew we were marooned here except those on our mother ship (now in distant space).

    One of the girls announced, “She was bored to death after only a few months and she started babbling and took a space suit out to die.” Then another girl did the same and finally the remaining girl and I decided to turn the power off and die slowly of lack of oxygen.

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    100 years later...

    Captain TYR OP arrived at this moon with a handful of colonists. The first thing they did was resurrect the dead bodies as they were all frozen. Technology eliminated any brain damage. And so we were all alive again.

    The first thing I asked for was stimulants and virtual reality entertainment hook up. I stayed immersed in virtual reality for a dozen years before I finally emerged sane again. But no more trips for me. I resolved to be a world designer based on Earth.

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