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Distress

Mike Snyder info 2005

Language:
English
Authors:
Mike Snyder info
Systems:
Hugo info
Platforms:
Hugo
Genres:
Horror, IF Comp 2005 info, Science fiction
Entered by:
Gunness, iamaran, Mr Creosote
Added:
13-12-2010
Edited:
18-02-2025

Synopsis

Lieutenant Huchess came to, an hour or so ago. That was around the time Runoma, blazing orange-hot so near this, its second planet, fell below the distant, jagged crag line. Ensign Covegn died not long after -- Sandra Marie Covegn, both legs crushed under the weight of the pod's torn hatch. Night came quickly, bringing with it cool and howling winds that whistle through desert rocks and carry other, more dangerous sounds. Huchess has since slipped back into delirium, then a sleeping stupor -- John Paul Huchess, a spike from the pod's heating core through his left shoulder, and deep gashes along his right side.

You were fortunate enough to be thrown clear of the pod, suffering some scrapes to your back and legs, but no injury more obvious. Your brown and blue uniform, initially in tatters, was ripped for bandages prior to nightfall, leaving you unprepared for the cold of night in the remains of a thin undersuit. The air on Runoma II is thick and oppressive, made worse in gravity that is twenty percent over Home Standard.

Notes

4th place (out of 36) in the 11th Annual Interactive Fiction Competition.

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