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Christopher Martinsen

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The Long Meal

Submitted to Contest #309

Dev opened the sealed container with the reverence reserved for relics. The cardamom pods lay nested in foam padding, their pale green shells still holding the ghost of monsoon air from a world that felt more like myth than memory. He counted out eight pods, then added a ninth. The container felt lighter than air in his palm. This would be the last time. The galley hummed around him, life support breathing its mechanical rhythm while he heated oil in the largest pot. The station's artificial gravity pulled the oil flat and still, nothing li...

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