Honest Common Sense

In my Friday progress report, I had said unusually much to Balzo of what I thought. I had also Pushed the mescap myself from room 13, instea...

I soon learned how to handle the laser gun. It had Stun and Kill settings, but Gabriel would not show us how to set it to Kill. “Stun will b...

The next day, Friday, was also the day the Tuglay rejoined us after their long sleep. I began the morning meeting by saying, “On Monday, I w...

While I had been relaxing during the Time of Storms, pleasantly drugged, my brain had been thinking, as brains do. I was concerned about wha...

On the Saturday morning, after breakfast, Michael said to us, “We think that the Time of Storms will probably begin this afternoon. It may l...

One evening the following week, Michael stood after dinner, and announced, “I have a piece of news for you. “Soon after we came here to Peri...

Tuesday came, and a cargo pod settled itself down into the Punishment Pit. It was a tall, black, noisy ship, on the model of three large roc...