Starship Winter (David Conway 03)
“I have my friends around roughly once a week for a meal and between times I let my domestic duties slip. That morning I scrubbed and cleaned, re-arranged the furniture several times, and even played half a dozen different music-needles on the ship’s sound system – eventually selecting some mood jazz from one of the colonies. Afterwards I sat on the balcony with a beer and considered Hannah van Harben, slim and blonde and smiling in my mind’s eye, and wondered if I were investing too much emotion in the relationship at this early stage. There was a time, a few years ago, when I might have held back from getting too involved with a beautiful woman. But I had been on Chalcedony for more than seven years now, with only one intimate relationship to boast of. That brought me up short. What had Darius Dortmund said, just the other day, about my being lonely…? That train of thought was interrupted by the chime of my com. I answered, dreading that it might be Hannah calling with some excuse no...t to visit.MoreLess
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