“LaToya stared at her fellow crewmates, lilting in zero gravity as the burning sun broke the void outside their ship. She hated weightlessness. The queasiness in her guts, lacking control, the fact that she couldn’t even drink a glass of water—it had to be squirted from a tube like a carnival candy. Staring out into the void, orbiting the cloudy terror of Venus, made up for it, though. It reminded her what all the schooling, all the training, and all the tribulations were for.”

                                                                                                                                   “SILENCE” – Dread Stone Press, April 2022