Dolly squinted up, stolen from her busy holopad by the boisterous burst of blue-hued starlight. Her pupils adjusted. She caught her breath.

“Oh!”

Her Comet-class space train, cantering along the networked velocity gates, weaved a shimmering silver thread through the dense asteroid cloud.

“…I’ll need celery for soup,” she remembered.

Ben Toovey is a Brit living in Germany, and a keen procrastinator.