Knife Fight And Other Struggles (2014) - Plot & Excerpts
The starship Gwendolyn had a staff of more than fifteen cryosurgeons, a payload of three thousand, two hundred and twenty-four crew and colonists, and a nursing staff of thirty-four. The first person she saw when she revived could have been anyone. It could have been that hateful Chief of Nursing Staff, Helen Rockholme, who had broken Suki’s heart back on Luna when she signed Suki on as a Candy Striper Second Class, even though Suki’d passed the exams at the top of her class and everybody knew she was more qualified for the rN-5 position than that horrible pill of a former best friend, Betty-Anne Tilley. For that matter, it could have been Betty-Anne Tilley that Suki’d seen first—she’d studied all the procedural manuals until it seemed like her brain was ready to burst, and Suki knew that registered nurses often monitored the routine revivifications without any supervision at all. It was part of the job. Betty-Anne Tilley at the console of my cryo-unit.
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