Inspired by a scene from the film “Gravity.”

Amazing. This is scary, chilling, sad and dramatic.

Just been listening to the serialisation of the book by the Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield ‘An Astronauts Guide to Life on Earth’ (He of the’ This is ground control to Major Tom’ song from space station). This eerily chimes with some of the things he talks about when death or the fear of it is dealt with by the protocols that are practiced over and over. They even practice protocols for their own death.

I didn’t know about protocols for death, but I have to say that I’m not surprised. Even dying is something you don’t want to screw up up there.

This is fantastic AND it fulfills the parameters of the challenge? Color me impressed and very, very, envious. You make it look so easy!

Thanks, Robert. I think I just lucked into decent source material. I’m far happier with this story than the one I entered the last time this type of lipogram challenge came up several years back.

Wow. My piece without ‘E’ was so much clumsier. You pull it off so naturally that the challenge barely exists!

Very elegant given your constraints!