The Salt Window
The salt out here never stops.
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The salt out here never stops.
The shuttle from the surface took eleven hours and I slept through nine of them, which I counted as a personal victory.
I was sixty-three years old and I had been retired for four years, which was why I was standing in the central plaza of the Dome at seven…
The way I heard it from the transport driver, the anomaly at Fort Sweeney was a big deal when it was found back in the eighties.
My wrist-comp chimed the end of the shift right as I was finishing the last manifest line, and I sat there a second in the little office…