The junior engineer scrolled through the big jobs list.
'Shouldn't this be getting smaller?' he said, hands on hips. 'We've been working nonstop since we set off.'
The chief engineer smiled. It was the lad's first voyage into deep space.
'Oh that's just a baby list,' she said, with eyebrows raised. 'Just you wait until after we jump. That list is going to put some weight on.'
Paddy Dobson
16th April 2023