Local Forecast

When investigating a disturbance in unexplored, unclaimed space, a desensitized space miner discovers something very live and very large that might doom her...or save her from another unseen threat.

For Irina, the routines of corporate space exploration--lunching on a food paste tube, sending messages in bottles across the void to her employers, and vying with a video game for her partner's attention during transit--just ended. The moment her ship passes through the warp point, Irina finds herself flung into the kind of boredom-ending uncertainty that could get her, her partner, and her robot killed.

LOCAL FORECAST is a One Afternoon Adventure, running about 6000 words.