The Ghost Below
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Fia loves her job as an electrician aboard a space-faring city vessel. She is skilled at her work, and appreciates not having too much facetime with other humans.Â
She just has one problem: a colleague has taken an interest in herâinterest she doesnât return.Â
When she finally works up the courage to tell him no, he takes offense and reports her to her supervisor for insubordination.
Her punishment? Her boss assigns her to repair the conduits in the bowels of the ship, reported to be haunted by a ghostly voice.Â
As Fia nervously delves into the darkest, most unknown corners of the ship she calls home, she wonders just what she will find down there: friend or foe? Or something else entirely?
This is a short story set in the Rove City universe, set roughly 150 years prior to book 1, Midnight Wings.
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Ariele Sieling is a Baltimore-based writer who enjoys books, cats, and trees. Her first love, however, is science fiction and she has three series in the genre: post-apocalyptic monsters in Land of Szornyek; soft science fiction series, The Sagittan Chronicles; and scifi fairytale retellings in Rove City. She has also had numerous short stories published in a variety of anthologies and magazines and is the author of children's books series Rutherford the Unicorn Sheep.Â
She lives in Baltimore with her husband, a dog, and three cats.
