Frances Joseph

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“An Answer” by Frances Joseph

Submitted to Contest #236

Her belly screeched. It was painful to forego food hour for the second day in a row, but today she was particularly optimistic. Yesterday, at Fourteen hour, her supervisor had left the Manufacturing lab, and she had removed the electric charger from the machine that produced tooth-cleaning gel. These portable rubidium chargers could run any apparatus on the ship, so surely it could provide power to an ancient technology as well; of course, she was assuming the early form of computer also used electricity. Perhaps it didn’t. Maybe it produced...

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