Sam Elwell

Beyond the Belt

CHAPER ONE: SHIVER Nobody can hear a scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say. There’s no medium for the sound to propagate, so it makes sense. What they don’t tell you, though, is that you can hear the cries of crew members taking their last breaths over the comms. That’s an all too familiar experience to me now. Raw. Horrifying. Demoralizing. It never gets easier and there’s seldom anything we can do to help.