The Black Hole Breakfast Club

By Travis Brightfield

The Black Hole Breakfast Club is a thrilling, rollicking, exhilarating blast through Outer Space as a tight-knit flight crew of divergent young adults exit their dying solar system in search of a new hope among the stars. Centered on their relationships as found friends and chosen family, this is a Space team that would die for each other – and with mysterious events that look a lot like sabotage unfolding all around them, some of them just might.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Travis Brightfield
• Release date: Jul 26, 2018
• ISBN: 9780463870723

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The Black Hole Breakfast Club

A Space Adventure

Part I

By Travis Brightfield

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PROLOGUE

For Pilot Commander Mitsuko Doi, the best thing about space flight was the view – or, more often, the lack thereof.

It was the vastness. The emptiness. The black. Something about… perspective, she guessed.

She spent most of her waking time standing in front of the broad, dense windowpane at the front of the bridge. Her crew would often glance at the empty helm, and then back at her formal posture. Shoulders rigid, hands folded behind her back, nose just a breath away from the glass. Some figured it for paranoia and ribbed her gleefully.

No need to keep an eye out for asteroids, Commander. Radar never takes a day off.

That's quite the staring contest you've gotten yourself into. I don't think the universe is going to blink.

I believe your telenovelas are on the other channel, sir.

That last one had earned Lieutenant Conrad Duncan a fierce stare, and he'd stammered out a swift apology.

It was easy to understand how some could mistake Commander Doi's favored post in front of the window as one of apprehension. While many had joined this mission out of a thirst to witness the mysteries of space firsthand, others were simply looking for distance from a dying planet – and the chance to find an opportunity to save it.

The worst thing about space flight? There, everyone aboard The Persephone agreed: that no matter how much water you add to vacuum-dried instant eggs, they still taste like chalk.

CHAPTER 1

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