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Canny bastards actually thought to add a writing exercise in the lectures, with "pause now for X minutes to write" title cards and everything. Curses. Foiled again.

Anyway, have my flash fiction SciFi story about a rocket jockey fixing a coaster. Goal was 250 words, I'm pretty happy with my 304.


Despite the drive having shut down, the engine room was still as hot as a furnace. Alice thumped the console fruitlessly, but it was no use. The spaceship was now purely ballistic. She had to get the engine back online, and she had to do it now. An overheated drive was bad, but it was nothing compared to the overheat she'd get if the ship slammed into the sun.

She slammed on the emergency coolant engager. The coolant expressor was slow to start, so slow that she wondered if it would at all, but start it did. The engine core temperature gauge started dropping, fast at first, but then rapidly slowing down as a pipe ruptured and started vomiting coolant into the room. Of course there had to be a coolant rupture. Of course there had to be a coolant rupture now.

Alice started casting about the room for something, for anything, to use. There was nothing of use, no pipes, no tubing, no nothing, but she did discover that the rupture was in a secondary line. She didn't need to fix it, she realised, she just needed to plug it, with anything she could, and she could deal with the fried systems when she was not quite so near being swallowed up by a star.

She still didn't have anything to plug it with, until she realised what she had on her lapel. Her Rocket Jockey Second Grade pin was just the right size, and with a bit of effort, she made it serve. The engine core temperature started dropping quickly again, and soon the engine was spinning up. With the push of a button, Alice directed the ship to start turning away from the sun. Despite the sun growing smaller by the minute, the engine room was still hot as a furnace.


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