Yeoman by Charles Yu

Author:Charles Yu
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2015-04-27T16:00:00+00:00

It’s late when we get back. We go through the ion-scrub and then debrief, and by the time I get back to my quarters it’s past two in the morning. My wife’s in bed. I slip off my uniform, slide under the thin blanket, and drape my arm over her hip. She turns over and faces me.

“Good God,” I say. I don’t know if it’s the hormones or what, but she seems to be literally glowing.

“Shut up,” she says. “I’m huge.”

“Yes, you are. And I like it.”

“Did you talk to him yet?” she says.

I don’t say anything.

“You’re just going to let this happen. To yourself. To us, to your kid.”

“What am I supposed to say?”

“How about, hey, Captain, I don’t feel like dying for no reason this week. You cool with that? Everyone cool with that?”

“It’s not like they want me to die,” I say, but even as I’m saying it, I’m remembering the slightly crazed look I saw in the captain’s eyes yesterday, playing with his goo-woman, and I get a hollow feeling in the pit of my stomach.

My wife turns over and slides back into me. She takes my hand and puts it under her shirt.

“That’s not how this ends,” she says. It’s just this very tiny, very pregnant lady, against the cold, dark expanse of this who-gives-a-shit universe, and yet the way she says it, it almost gives me a little bit of, I don’t know, hope? As if she could just refuse to live in a cosmos where that’s how this story could end. As if, by personal choice, by sheer will, she could collapse all of the possible worlds down to the one she wants, the one she needs.

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