Gretel

Instead of speeding for the stars, colony ship Gretel reappears in Saturn's orbit.After promising to never return to space, Karl Nathan finds himself confronted with a chilling choice.Saving the passengers, including his brother, will take all his courage.And then some.A deep space adventure from the author of Athena Setting. Sean Monaghan is the author of more than one hundred stories, in print, online, on broadcast radio and podcast. His stories include "Concentration" in Landfall, and "The Molenstraat Music Festival" in Asimovs. He was the Grand Prize winner in the 2014 Jim Baen Memorial Writing Contest for his story "Low Arc"