Zombie City Stories (English Edition): Ten Morbid Short Stories by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Wiebers Verlag
Published: 2014-12-21T00:00:00+00:00

Maze of Mars

By Fabienne Gschwind

Blog Entry Day 5, Mars mission 4B

Hey guys, you're probably wondering right now why I wrote "day 5" right? Sure, in the meantime, it should be Day 213 or something like that… But I've spent the last 210 days in sleep mode! That's why I left those days out. Or should I have programmed an autowriter that blogs "I'm sleeping" every day? Exactly :P

Anyway, I woke up some six standard hours ago. It wasn't half as bad as I had anticipated. Somewhat like waking up after a long, relaxing sleep on your day off. I'm really glad that Mission Control decided to have the ship equipped with sleep mode chambers on such short notice. Those keep your body in some kind of continuous slumber, while the muscles are stimulated with electronic impulses. Nutrition is provided via stomach tube. That way, all bodily functions remain active for the whole duration of the flight. Much better than the Body-Freez method, where you get shock-frozen more or less.

Thinking back to my only BF-experience some three years ago, I still shudder. G'damn, I had to throw up about once every hour for seven days after waking up! And that pain… joints, muscles, everything. I felt half passed out and stumbled about like a zombie!

SleepMode on the other hand was super. I woke up completely relaxed and the ServBot brought my breakfast, which I had decided on shortly after mission start. There was sugar rice, cubeEgg and even some slices of traditional Bacon. What a surprise! Real bacon! I'd never have thought that MarsMission would be so generous! Of course, I had expected K-con, and it was only when I had it in my mouth that I realized the difference. Well, it's not that K-con is bad or anything, it's really okay, too. But it just doesn't compare to real meat. (Thanks, Ivy ;)

Okay, enough with the writing… we're gonna have to prep the landing module now. The window of opportunity is extremely small, we're scheduled to leave the support ship at 3.2 of 7,56,43.

Blog Entry Day 9, Mars mission 4B

Sorry for the long break. As you can imagine (or, more likely, as you've probably read on MarsMission's R-Site) the whole crew exchange business was pretty hectic. The support ship went back to Earth with the old Mars crew right away, and was only in orbit for the duration of the swing-by maneuver. After all, it had to build up some speed for the trip back to Earth.

Still you probably wonder why I talk about the return of the former Mars crew, when WE were actually supposed to join them, instead of relieving them, after only six month of Mars duty. Well, that was the plan in any case.

Unfortunately, the sun's activity in the last couple of months must have been a lot more intense than anticipated. The members of crew 4A are already suffering from radiation damage. Or at least, their skin scans show first signs of some form of mutation.

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