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Care Package (Otherwise Untitled)

Story by Moriar on SoFurry

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#231 of Short Stories

A rabbit eats a potato.

~ The rabbit nibbled gingerly at the microwaved potato, giving the core of it time to steam out its heat. With her other hand, she regarded the careful script of her mother laid out on the page with an ink somewhat faded by the weeks the package had spent being irradiated in deep space.

~ "Uncle Stelven's got the tractor back working again, like you guessed.", she called down the hallway to a crew mate who was idling his time rebuilding one of the ship's filtration tiles, "...and you'd get more care packages yourself, if you'd message home where you'd be, you know?"

~ The cockatiel chuckled aloud, audible from the couple decks below.

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