Stranded (Part Four)

Part four of the Stranded chronicle series. I hate space. Even the word is a misnomer. There’s nothing vast or open about it. Two years on board this ship and it’s still all I think about. I feel it pressing against the hull, cold and heavy. Hear it in the thousand creaks and moans of the Ingress as she pushes deeper into the smothering black. The corridors on the way back to my compartment are empty, but elsewhere on the ship people are busily going about their work. There is no room for passengers …