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    The Most Important Sound in Space
    The Most Important Sound in Space
    The Most Important Sound in Space
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    The Most Important Sound in Space

    By Stefon Mears

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    The first manned mission to Mars. Paving the way for settlers. Every crewman the best of the best. But a long flight, where grudges and tempers have their chance to flare.

    Blaine, outside of the ship. Spacewalking to repair the refrigeration unit. A simple repair…

    But a spacewalk Blaine may not survive.

    "The Most Important Sound in Space" – a thrilling short story of hard science fiction. One man must fight space and technology for survival. From Stefon Mears, author of Stealing from Pirates and Fade to Gold.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThousand Faces Publishing
    Release dateAug 1, 2018
    ISBN9781386469711
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      I’m not supposed to hold my breath on spacewalks, but I do it anyway.

      Yeah, I know the reasons I shouldn’t. Holding my breath makes the heart work harder, then increases respiration when I do breathe and all that kind of thing.

      But here’s my logic – when it’s just my puffy white suit between my tender life and the unforgiving frozen vacuum of space, I like to listen to the suit. Geraldine says that’s just proof that I’m crazy, that the suit makes no noise when no one’s on the com.

      But she’s wrong. It’s like … it’s like the echo of a hum. Faint. Barely there. But reassuring. Like when I was a little kid. I could have been playing with my toy cars in the living room while my mom was reading the paper in the kitchen, but I felt just a little safer hearing that faint rustle of paper when she turned the page. The little non-sounds she made while reading.

      She was there. I wasn’t alone. And the suit, it’s here for me

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