Asimov's Science Fiction: December 2013
“Neube | 6038 words Want more Neube? Old-School Neube, which contains fifteen stories that originally appeared in Asimov's is available for Kindle. Also at Amazon is the Cincinnati Writers Project's latest anthology A Few Good Words, which includes a pair of the author's tales. In his latest story for us, two people manipulate the same means to achieve vastly different goals.
"They aren't responding to our mayday." Mayor Keenan's voice cracked like cheap glass. "I knew this wouldn't work." "...It will work," I shouted into the microphone.
Keenan was a good man, wherein lurked the mayor's ultimate weakness. I would have preferred someone whose corruption could be computed and utilized.
"Broadcast our coordinates. That warship is hiding out there for a reason. Let's become a raving nuisance." My plan was already going wrong. Perhaps we should have waited until we hit the L–5 Customs Station. Doubt tasted of bile.
The maintenance shaft constricted whenever my imagination flexed.MoreLess
"They aren't responding to our mayday." Mayor Keenan's voice cracked like cheap glass. "I knew this wouldn't work." "...It will work," I shouted into the microphone.
Keenan was a good man, wherein lurked the mayor's ultimate weakness. I would have preferred someone whose corruption could be computed and utilized.
"Broadcast our coordinates. That warship is hiding out there for a reason. Let's become a raving nuisance." My plan was already going wrong. Perhaps we should have waited until we hit the L–5 Customs Station. Doubt tasted of bile.
The maintenance shaft constricted whenever my imagination flexed.MoreLess
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