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  1. Public Bookmark 11

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    Five times Grace cheered someone else up and the one time he was comforted instead.

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    15 Sep 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 22

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    There were a variety of things the file could be. Maybe it was just a fluke. Maybe it held some sort of personal information he didn’t want anyone to see. Or maybe it was the extended cut of his failed attempt at introducing the concept of karaoke to an alien species.

    There were a variety of things the file could be, but why it was encrypted, and why he’d given it that particular name -- one which would mean nothing to anyone but her -- of this, she was almost certain.

    “Because it’s for me.”

     
    Twenty-six years after the launch of the Hail Mary, Eva Stratt gets to face the surprising reality that sometimes our prayers are answered.

    Not by God, in her case, but by Grace.

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    13 Sep 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 71

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    "No," Rocky said later. "Rocky not lie for the history books. If Grace kill self doing stupid shit like this, Rocky make sure everybody Erid know. Rocky build probe to send to Earth to tell all humanity: Dr Grace die from stupid preventable accident. Grace save Earth but turn out too stupid to live. Sad sad sad. Wait, if Grace die like this, Rocky WILL lie and tell everybody he die on toilet like Elvis. Earth will put this on Grace Wikipedia forever, because Grace not around to correct Rocky."

    “Okay,” I said. “I think I’m… appropriately embarrassed already.”
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    Grace makes a classic cleaning blunder on the way to Erid. Or, How to Accidentally Gas Yourself for Fun and Profit.

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    10 Sep 2026

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    “Not — not understand,” Rocky continues, a little higher now, his body shuddering. “Try Vℓ times, all failure failure failure. Eridian mating sometimes fail, but not this much. This much unprecedented. Thought location, temperature, time of year problems in previous attempts — fixed all, Grace know Rocky and Adrian work to fix all, and still failure, still.”

    Grace fidgets with his hands, stretching each knuckle and palming the free edge of each nail, to keep from throwing himself onto Rocky and howling like an animal.

    (Because somewhere along the way, Rocky and Adrian's wish for kids had become Grace's own, too.)

    OR: Rocky and Adrian's eggs keep dying long before they hatch, and no one knows why. Grace — who definitely doesn't see himself as a parent to those hatchlings, how stupid and impossible would that be?! — has the normal reaction, which is inventing gene therapy from scratch to help the next egg survive.

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    09 Sep 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 81

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    Grace crossed the house, grabbing his laptop and flopping down across his couch. His laptop rested on the swell of his abdomen as he opened his browser and pulled up a database of symptoms and their potential causes.

    Nausea. Weight gain. Increased appetite. Fatigue. Frequent urination.

    He cross-referenced with an open notebook, writing down possible diagnoses. Stomach viruses, food poisoning, metabolic changes, depression, various kinds of cancers.

    Pregnancy popped up a lot, too. Over and over, for every symptom. None of the other diagnoses appeared for every one of his symptoms.

    “Wouldn’t that be a riot?” Grace muttered to himself. “Human parthenogenesis in the only human on an alien planet."

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    Eridian doctors transferred a human embryo into Grace. They didn't bother asking his permission.

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    06 Sep 2026

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    Fertility is a fickle thing. Eridians, in spite—or maybe because—of their long lifespan, are only fertile for a hundred years or so.

    Rocky anticipates this will be his last clutch. He asks Grace for a favor.


    “Remind me why, uh, why we can’t throw together a little xenonite box, stick a silicon heating pad and a thermometer in there, and call it a day?”

    ‹… Can,› Rocky says, hesitantly. He spins around to put the model down, leaving the two xenonite figurines coupled together, presumably in singular ecstasy or whatever. Joined forever. How romantic.

    ‹But is… not ideal. Many problems put in nut shell: Once cryo-protectant injected and cooling to 40°C complete, even short 4° internal temperature fluctuation kill egg.›

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    05 Sep 2026

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    Rocky darted out of the way. The door shut with a decisive whirr-click.
    The endless glug-thud-squelch of Ryland Grace's body seemed very loud in the small room. He made a noise that sounded like, "Huh?"
    "Grace and Adrian talk now," Rocky commanded. They pointed one arm at them. "Talk until both normal."
    "What?" Adrian said, baffled.
    Rocky clattered several claws against the ground, a discord of pique. "You are both annoying! Always polite, polite, polite. Bland. Empty."

    In which Adrian and Grace haven't really been getting along, and Rocky takes matters into his own claws.

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    04 Sep 2026

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    I lived with this hunger long before the Hail Mary. This is nothing new. I’m fine.

    Right up until Rocky asks another question.

    “When last time you touch other human person skin, question?”

    Oh. Oh no. “When I… a few days after I first woke up here.”

    Rocky starts to relax for a split second, but then tightens when something occurs to him.

    “Grace crewmates dead when you wake up. You said this, statement. You not even know your own name, remember nothing, see dead bodies, confirm?”

    I nod, because if I open my mouth I will gag.

    “When last time Grace touch ALIVE human person, question.”

    I swallow thickly. I don’t answer aloud because I know Rocky can hear the hitch in my breath. My stomach churns with fresh bile. He senses my vital signs tick over into stress patterns and goes very, very still again.

    “Grace. When last time, question.”

    I clench my jaw so hard my temples ache, and beg him with my eyes to just stop.

    “Grace. Please say not when… when Evil Stratt humans put you to sleep.”

    I can taste grass.

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    AKA: Grace starves for more than just food on the journey to Erid.

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    04 Sep 2026

  9. Public Bookmark 9

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    An old friend stops by while Grace sleeps.

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    03 Sep 2026

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    "Without thinking of it, Grace makes it through two and three fourths of a bag of coffee. Rookie numbers. The taste didn't get better, but it was something new, almost comforting in how demanding it was of his senses. It shushed that little voice telling him if he had to see another white spaceship panel, or taste taumoeba again, he would throw himself into the nearest star’s orbit."
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    Grace remembers he can drink coffee, and immediately regrets it.

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    03 Sep 2026

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    When you look at Dr. Grace, you'll notice a few things.

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    03 Sep 2026

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    I started to hear the invisible musician when I was six years old.

    Rocky thought he lost his only soulsong long ago. Then, he starts to hear an alien voice. Has he finally lost his mind, or could this strange creature be the key to Erid’s—and his own—salvation?

    On Earth, Ryland Grace grows up with a song in his head. He learns to speak to it, and it becomes his closest friend. But when the voice gets scary, his colleagues turn against him, and he starts to lose faith in his own mind, he will have to decide who to trust.

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    03 Sep 2026

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    Eva nods again, slowly. “Okay. So. What you’re saying is… your telepathic alien soulmate named Rocky has been helping you brainstorm solutions to the problems in the engineering department.”
     

    As soon as the pictures came in from the Venus probe, Eva Stratt got to work. She spoke with every reputable xenobiologist she could find. Every one of them pointed to Dr Ryland Grace. All of them told her, in varying degrees of politeness, that he was a little… unhinged.

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    The elevator's receiver array picks up a garbage signal beamed in from deep space. No matter their attempts, Eridian scientists cannot make top or bottom of it. A misfire, or an echo of that long lost crew's final transmission, most likely. It is recorded, but never publicized.

    And then it happens again.

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    01 Sep 2026

  15. Public Bookmark 8

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    Grace knows he'll never see Earth again. Some days it hits him harder than others.

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    01 Sep 2026

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    They learn of what happened in the same way: secondhand, delayed - the event already in the past by the time it reached them.

    Or - Grace and Colt both learn of what happened to the other through news broadcasts, too far away to do anything about it.

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    01 Sep 2026

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    "...Mr. Grace?"

    Colt froze.

    He had turned instinctively at the voice - and for a single moment he saw three or four kids crowding the doorframe of the classroom, and one of them, a girl in a bright yellow jacket, had her hand over her mouth in shock.

    "Mr. Grace!"

    Or - Colt Seavers visits Grover Cleveland Middle School.

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    01 Sep 2026

  18. Public Bookmark 62

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    Subject switched to Swedish Fish, likely due to Vat-wide Skittles shortage. - Galeotti

    Subject was heard singing “Jellicle Songs for Jellicle Cats” in the communal showers for the third day in a row. Should we do a group movie night to gather some seductive Cats references? - Ndukwe

    <<- UPDATE: Watched clips on YouTube. NOT worth it.

     

    Frustrated in their efforts to seduce the elusive Ryland Grace, Stratt Vat members band together to research what makes him tick.

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    “Careful, with that kind of language you’re gonna start a space war.”

    “I am being kind.” Rocky deadpans, and now I’m really grinning. I’m sure it’s the most shit eating grin I’ve worn in the past few weeks, and my chest feels a little lighter.

    “Pfff, you know humans would beat you in a space war anyway.”

    “Yes. You would drown us.”

    I can’t hold back the laughter that shakes my belly as Rocky sits there with his arms crossed—another habit he’s picked up from me—pretending not to be amused.
    The laughter feels warm, it feels earned. Maybe everything will work out. Maybe it was just one bad dream. Maybe I’m not a coward. Maybe it will all be alright.

    Bang!

    The laughter in my throat catches. The lights flicker. An alarm blares from the cockpit.

    Ah. Jinxed it.

    ****

    Grace never really had time to process a lot of the memories that returned in the midst of their world-saving mission. Now, with him and Rocky on the long haul back to Erid together, problems are making themselves known.

    He's not a coward, and he'll do anything to prove it.

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    01 Sep 2026

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    you know how this goes

    Grace gets to Erid with an unconscious Rocky and everyone thinks hes a four year old
    it never gets old.

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    29 Aug 2026

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