Island

The hovercraft swooped over the artificial island. The city below was dark and industrial, and the streets were crowded with workers, making sure the little island city pumped electricity to the mainland. The carrier was taking the new batch of workers down from the mainland. The pilot had heard the news. There had been a significant incident last week as a maintenance pipe had erupted, taking down twenty people. He wouldn’t have paid any thought to the story if he weren’t tasked with ...