Labour Pains

By J.P.H. Morgan

Chief Flight Engineer Glen Tavener solves a tricky mystery on the Gustav D space freighter in this short story.

• Language: English
• Publisher: J.P.H. Morgan
• Release date: Dec 2, 2019
• ISBN: 9780463912904

J.P.H. Morgan

I am a 65-year old recently retired individual with a varied career from sales to recycling to information technology to bus driving. I have always liked to write, but work and family choices always got in the way. Now that I am retired, I am looking forward to writing more stories to share with you, mainly science fiction, fantasy and horror, but perhaps a few other genres mixed in as well.

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Labour Pains

By J.P.H. Morgan

Copyright 2019 J.P.H. Morgan

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Labour Pains

The whole situation was enough to make any self-respecting Engineer take up knitting. The Gustav D was thirty hours out of Liandren V on the Coyvil run when the second set of unexpected trouble showed up.

The first had been two shifts earlier. Plasma flow through the aft power conduit had destabilized and knocked us out of NE-Space. Diagnostics showed the conduit had been improperly realigned during the last overhaul on Liandren V. Normally this is a dockside job, but when you're six light-years from anywhere…

We spent back-to-back shifts performing a tricky in-flight realignment. Most of that job is done in real space with power from the singularity chamber to the NE-Space field generators pinched down. I was betting that by the time we finished the captain had received more than one