We All Fall Down

Panic! Horror in Space, Book 3

Stuart Flane, Captain of the starship Mercury, and lately the butt-end of innumerable jokes doing the rounds at Space Fleet H.Q., is called upon once more—kicking and screaming—to investigate all manner of preternatural fuckery.

How would Flane's skeptical superiors react to his next report—and above all, how would he word it? The word "carefully" always came to mind. Sooner or later, he worried, someone was going to turn up demanding answers—and it wasn't too long before someone did.

Commodore Link, a heavy-handed disciplinarian, makes it his business to get to the bottom of Flane's alleged fraud, and his investigation progressively turns the starship Captain's life into a bit of a miserable hell. Then, as if by coincidence, the Mercury is redirected to a nearby industrial colony to investigate disturbances at what—much to Flane's acute embarrassment, turns out to be one of the most haunted hotels in the outblack.

©2022 Christina Engela (P)2023 Timothy Nigel Peever