Night of the Hats

  12 months ago subscribers to my Patreon received this communication, in Generic Space Fiction Format. Now it has been declassified and all of you can read it. **** Administrative Action Dereliction of duty they call it. Falling asleep on watch. No need to throw me in the ship’s jail for that. Where am I going to go? I’d just stay in my bunk to catch up on some Zs. Fat chance of that here. Spacer Collins moaning about their contraband that’s been confiscated and Specialist Zhu keeps poking at the bruises they got in their fight with Chief Mahoney. And on top of that the warning buzz of the force field door. Why not a regular door with a lock, that doesn’t have to have an audible reminder to stay back. So the three of us are locked in when the All Hands alert comes through, followed by Action Stations . Well the idiot guard checks the force field then ups and goes to where ever his station is. “Hey,” I yell, but he ignores us. I guess they have to deal with whatever it is w...