Ambassador
“Each pod sat on eight wheels and looked like a large vitamin.
Gabe thought about how much his father hated vitamins. The man despised the whole idea of vitamins. They were nutrients stripped all the way down to the bare-bones geometry of survival—tiny, sterile, swallowable food without any actual meal involved. No cooking. No mess. No friends and family laughing or arguing around the dinner table. Just a pill. Dad refused to take vitamins, ever, even when snotty colds took over the household an...d Mom tried to push vitamin C on everyone. “It’s just the inside rind of an orange peel,” he’d protest. “And I would rather eat orange peels.” Then he would eat orange peels while Mom grumbled and made everyone else take vitamins.
Gabe tried not to think about his family.
“This place doesn’t look like much,” he said out loud. This was bare-bones survival, the vitamin equivalent of house and home. He hadn’t really expected to find a gleaming silver city on the far side of the moon, but he still felt disappointed.MoreLess
Gabe thought about how much his father hated vitamins. The man despised the whole idea of vitamins. They were nutrients stripped all the way down to the bare-bones geometry of survival—tiny, sterile, swallowable food without any actual meal involved. No cooking. No mess. No friends and family laughing or arguing around the dinner table. Just a pill. Dad refused to take vitamins, ever, even when snotty colds took over the household an...d Mom tried to push vitamin C on everyone. “It’s just the inside rind of an orange peel,” he’d protest. “And I would rather eat orange peels.” Then he would eat orange peels while Mom grumbled and made everyone else take vitamins.
Gabe tried not to think about his family.
“This place doesn’t look like much,” he said out loud. This was bare-bones survival, the vitamin equivalent of house and home. He hadn’t really expected to find a gleaming silver city on the far side of the moon, but he still felt disappointed.MoreLess
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