There were strangers in Mercy Payne's cell when she woke up.
For weeks, she'd been held prisoner, by an alien avian race she didn't recognize, and though one whole exterior wall of her house-like cell was a transparent acrylic material, no one who came by to gawk at her cared when she begged, pleaded, cajoled, or otherwise begged for help. Instead, her jailers dropped stun grenades into her living room.
But now help has come, in the form of three strangers: Charon, Daisy, and Mouse. Although they have some lessons to learn - especially on the subject on stun grenades - they're the first human contact Mercy has had in weeks.
To escape their shared prison cell, they'll have to become a team and work together. Time is short, before they'll be taken off-planet to who-knows-where. The only question is - can she trust them?
Extraction is a short story of approximately 10600 words that was originally published in It Takes More Kinds, a Salvage Universe anthology from Theogony Press.
Genre: Science Fiction
For weeks, she'd been held prisoner, by an alien avian race she didn't recognize, and though one whole exterior wall of her house-like cell was a transparent acrylic material, no one who came by to gawk at her cared when she begged, pleaded, cajoled, or otherwise begged for help. Instead, her jailers dropped stun grenades into her living room.
But now help has come, in the form of three strangers: Charon, Daisy, and Mouse. Although they have some lessons to learn - especially on the subject on stun grenades - they're the first human contact Mercy has had in weeks.
To escape their shared prison cell, they'll have to become a team and work together. Time is short, before they'll be taken off-planet to who-knows-where. The only question is - can she trust them?
Extraction is a short story of approximately 10600 words that was originally published in It Takes More Kinds, a Salvage Universe anthology from Theogony Press.
Genre: Science Fiction
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