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Welcome to the Medical Clinic at the Interplanetary Relay Station | Hours Since the Last Patient Death: 0 - Lightspeed Magazine

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Published in Mar. 2016 (Issue 70) | 2100 words © 2016 by Caroline M. Yoachim. Art Copyright 2016 by Reiko Murakami. A. You take a shortcut through the hydroponics bay on your way to work, and notice that the tomato plants are covered in tiny crawling insects that look like miniature beetles. One of the insects skitters up your leg, so you reach down and brush it off. It bites your hand. The area around the bite turns purple and swollen. You run down a long metal hallway to the Medical Clinic, grateful for the artificially generated gravity that defies the laws of physics and yet is surprisingly common in fictional space stations. The sign on the clinic door says “hours since the last patient death:” The number currently posted on the sign is zero. If you enter the clinic anyway, go to C. If you seek medical care elsewhere, go to B. B. You are in a relay station in orbit halfway between Saturn and Uranus. There is no other medical care available. Proceed to C. Why are you still reading this?…

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