Pod Dreams of Tuckertown
By Gareth L. Powell
1.
All Pod wants to do is hang with his friends, Erik and Kai. But he can’t, not anymore. Not since the Clampdown. Not since the Elite looked down from their high orbit and decided to rationalize human society, to make it ordered and safe. Not since they sent him here, to the bridge, to work off his criminal debt.
He hates the bridge. He hates the stinging wind and the crashing waves. He hates the tedious, backbreaking work. But most of all, he hates his foreman, Fergus.
He hates Fergus for hurting Kai. Kai bungled a weld on one of the support girders, and so Fergus stamped on her spine until she couldn’t walk. Now all Pod wants to do is kill Fergus. He lies in his bunk at night and dreams of smashing Fergus’s head with a wrench or pushing
