Theft on the Generation Ship: Science Fiction Short Story

Marlene Gutjahr reads the regular inventory reports of her drugstore on the holoscreen. Absent-minded. Her thoughts search her wardrobe for the perfect dress on today's video chat with her fiancée.



If only she feels awake. Inventory work exhausted her. Marlene discovers a discrepancy in stock and inventory counted. The first in ten years. Not possible!



Risking the rage of her fiancée frightens her. The stock discrepancy requires her to stay at work.



A fight to control her life for meaning. Despite her purpose to give birth to a perfect the next generation, And an enemy Marlene never sees coming.