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The Relative Positions of Dead Things in the Dark

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To her dismay, pilot and sometimes-criminal Xan has acquired a derelict spaceship full of tech, salvage, and corpses. Her adopted sister, sometimes-smuggler Baschimeh, may be the perfect person to offer advice and company on a visit to the ship.

"The Relative Positions of Dead Things in the Dark" is a 6,900 word short story. It originally appeared in ParSec Issue 4 (Summer), July 2022, edited by Ian Whates.

Cover image: freestyle_images.

Content warning: References to murder, ongoing effects of bodily injury, mutilation of a corpse, mild family strife

The story can be downloaded as a PDF and EPUB (generic and device-specific versions are available).

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