Lawrence Bates

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“The Last Voyage of Commander Jenkins” by Lawrence Bates

Submitted to Contest #247

The Last Voyage of Commander JenkinsLawrence M. Bates I open my eyes. It’s light out. Then something that sounds like a Chopin nocturne starts ever so softly to intrude upon my still half-awake, still half-asleep consciousness. I begin stretching to get the kinks out only to find my elbows banging against the side of my crypt. Oh, yeah. Right. I’m Joshua Jenkins, the captain of the starship Montmartre on a colony prep mission. All the hoses and med devices and such have been retracted from my body and the lid to my pod has been popped open b...

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