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Commander Reyes. She’s been on the station for eleven months. She has a husband in Houston and a daughter who just learned to say “mama” over video calls. I’ve watched Reyes cry exactly once—when she missed her daughter’s first steps by three hours because a solar flare scrambled the transmission.

Halfway there, I stop.

Saito. Status.

Outside, the universe keeps spinning. The scorch mark keeps fading. And somewhere, three hundred miles down, my mother is doing a downward dog in what used to be my bedroom.

That was six years ago.

“Copy. Any anomalies?”

There’s a rhythm to spacewalking. A liturgy. Clip in. Check tether. Turn bolt one-quarter. Wait for the click. Turn again. Count breaths. Don’t think about the fact that you’re wearing a flimsy bag of nylon and hope between your skin and the most hostile environment imaginable. firstclass pov

I look out at the black. There’s always anomalies. The human body isn’t meant for this. My fingernails are loose from the pressure gloves. My retinas have micro-tears from cosmic rays. My spine compresses and decompresses like a sad accordion every time I sleep in the centrifuge.