The Rescue
This is another early story, my second (after "The Minstrel") to be published in JAM Magazine. All of my early stories were aimed at teen readers, because I was barely out of that age group myself!
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THEY WERE CRASHING AGAIN. Alicia knew with sick certainty everything that was about to happen, but that did not lessen the terror.
She could hear the braking rockets thundering and the atmosphere screaming around the falling lifecraft, she could feel the terrible heat, and she knew that something was wrong, that it wasn’t supposed to be like this...
Then the pilot screamed over the intercom, “I can’t hold her! Brace for impact!” and the lifecraft rang as though struck by a mighty hammer. The hull split open. Cold water burst into the passenger compartment, and for frantic
