Stories tagged “away team”

  • The Relative Blackness pt.1

    The filter on the big rubber suit doesn’t keep out the stench. Dim light, dark green and brown on the walls. The mask blocks my peripheral, and I turn clumsily to look over at Evan who is standing under one of the few functioning lights in the hall, ...

  • The Relative Blackness pt.2

    Evan is still looking at his pencil, lodged tip first into a dried spot of grime, when I pull on his arm and tug him with me down the old tiled floor. He comes uneasily, staring back until we’ve gone twenty or thirty feet. If I let go, he’l...

  • The Relative Blackness pt.3

    The flashlight on my shoulder is starting to go. I hold my deafening breath, but the slamming in my chest takes its place. I’m pressed up against the wall, listening to the muted sounds outside my suit. There’s nothing, I think. Probably no...