Station Thirteen
by
Camille Alexa
Originally Published in Tainted: Tales of Terror and the Supernatural,
2008
Genre:
Science Fiction
Length: 19 pages.
"Station Thirteen" by Camille Alexa is a tale after Algernon Blackwood's classic story "The Empty House." Veteran spacer Victoria Lewis heeds her old mentor's dying wish that she join him in orbit for a special journey. Do dead cosmonaut lovers really haunt an abandoned station leftover from a bygone era, or do the spacers confront something far more frightening from within themselves?