Crude Mechanicals
J.R. VERNHAM
Remi swerved hard starboard away from a solar yacht speeding out of Hildas Interchange. And swerved again, when the sleek vessel adjusted its course, right back into her path.
“Uh, Remi?” Karlo asked, pointing at the overhead panel. “I think I see the problem.”
“Fix it! Fix it! Fix it!”
“Ayep.”
The view outside the forward hatch spun. Remi yelped, stabbing at the controls... until, abruptly, they stilled, and the solar yacht cruised past (correctly) on their port side.
“Guess we shoulda checked that Australian gravity generator before we installed it,” said Karlo. “It was, uh, set to Southern Hemisphere.”
J.R. Vernham lives in Canada, cheating the system by growing food from kitchen scraps.