Chapter One: A Silent Scream
11 min readSep 12, 2022
Nobody can hear a scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say. And, of course, “they” refers to my parents as they cautioned me against straying too far from the hive. The vacuum of space is an ever-looming threat on a planet where wormholes spawn randomly, drawing everything below into the inky nothingness of the galaxy or unleashing torrents of debris on unsuspecting victims of fate. And scream isn’t really the right word.
