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Weekly Contest #348
Things Could Always Be Worse “Things could always be worse.” I repeat this aloud to myself. It was the last thing my mother said to me before she died in a machinery accident. It became a mantra for me. I settle into my chair as the starship quietly shuttles from Earth’s orbit towards the Cosmolauncher. A needle piercing the fabric of space that will zip me to the next phase in my future, indentureship. The other seats in my row are all empty, a hollow luxury in a ship packed with the desperate. There are several humans in the rows in fron...
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