Far Horizons: Tales of Sci-Fi, Fantasy and Horror. Issue #14 May 2015 | Page 14

1) The arrival at Shama

the cold statues from my university?

Mark was assigned to the Shama orbital station on
Neptune. The recruiter started with some small talk:
“We are proud of having a diverse nationality group
of astronauts in this base. This was due to different
nations cooperating together in the classified space
projects. You are going to be the only American
there.” Then he blurted out: “There, right now, is only
one woman.”
“Why?” Mark asked,
“We have no clue. Strange, isn’t it? On this particular
space station they disappear and no one has any idea
of what happens. Anyway, this is classified information if you know what I mean.” The recruiter replied:
Mark understood