Ashlynn Penny

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“Counting to Sleep” by Ashlynn Penny

Submitted to Contest #62

Seventy two. Forty Eight. Nine. When discussing space travel, A lot of numbers get thrown around. Seventy Two percent, for example, is the statistical likelihood of waking up from stasis. Forty Eight is the number of vaccinations and preparatory formulas injected into a person’s bloodstream before stasis. Nine is the number of life support systems required to maintain stasis during the 159,140 earth-day journey to a place where the seeds of humanity were to be replanted. By the time Jerod began the reanimation cycle in the new world, everyo...

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