Mary-Bryant Charles

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“The Thirty-Third Launch ” by Mary-Bryant Charles

Submitted to Contest #52

It took them decades of hurling metal into the stratosphere to realize women were best suited for space travel. With every launch, the men from the lab sent two rats, a male and a female, to test what the influence of space could do to a body. With every landing, the female returned alone, her partner a lifeless lump, fur all gone and flesh dappled with dark circles humming with radiation. This radiation was everywhere in space, they found. It came from everywhere and if it could ravage the rodents, it could ravish their astronauts and that ...

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