Tentacle Awareness
By Tami Veldura
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Gwen is a Jumper, able to sense wyrmholes in space and pull herself, and a space ship, through them to jump from one solar system to another. She employs this skill with her best friend Charlie to run trade routes. But this latest shipping route is too good to be true, and Gwen accepts the work with doubts.
Tami Veldura
Tami Veldura is an enby/aro/ace author of queer fiction. They have published short stories in anthologies Fresh Starts, Hauntings, Love Among The Thorns, Love Is Like A Box Of Chocolates, the magazine Galaxy’s Edge, and they are a contributing member of the scifi magazine Boundary Shock Quarterly. They publish new work every month, crossing every genre, but always featuring queer characters and found families.As S.T. Lynn, they write uplifting, sweet, and tropey fantasy fiction, featuring women front and center. Including fairy tales, elves, magic, and happy endings for young adults and young-at-heart.
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Tentacle Awareness - Tami Veldura
Tentacle Awareness
By Tami Veldura
Gwen dipped her fingers into the vast space around her ship, searching for something that had been left behind. She found a hole, a tear in fabric with ragged, unraveling edges. On the other side, her fingers touched a different corner of space. With care, she dragged the ship closer, then all at once they fell through the wyrmhole and arrived in a new star system.
Gwen took a deep, clarifying breath, shook her body back into awareness, and urged her mental sense of space to fade. Jumping the ship and its contents from one system to another was her job, but it was also something of an art. The task pulled at her mind, and tried to drag her body with it, and only decades of practice let Gwen peal herself out of the space-sense so easily.
She stood on the deck of the Heron, reacquainting herself with local reality. Space was immeasurably vast, but the pilot deck of the Heron was a tiny five by five meters, more than half consumed by a pair of well-worn seats before the flight computer and it's screens.
Charlie sat in the pilot chair on the right. Her short hair fell