Patrick Juhl

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“The Men Are Dead” by Patrick Juhl

Submitted to Contest #134

The men are dead. Strangled. In their sleep. Gods-be-damned if I know how to pilot a ship–not out here, in the vastness of the stars. I could do it en-atmos, where there are landmarks, but out here... blue hells, the stars all look the same. “What about that one there, sir,” Errol asked, pointing to a pinprick of light that looked like all the others in the velvet blackness of eternity. “What about it?” I didn’t look at him. My stomach, it already flipped and swam like a roiling pot of water, and the skin… the skin dangling from lieutenan...

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I was born in Santa Cruz, California, but have lived in Tennessee for over half of my life. I have been writing for a long time, and can only hope to get better! I attend the University of Tennessee for history and secondary education.