The Anomaly of the Stupid Backoff
A mysterious professor. A reluctant crew. And something ancient awakening in the darkness between stars. Seven light-years from Earth, the fate of humanity rests with the most unlikely of ships.

A mysterious professor. A reluctant crew. And something ancient awakening in the darkness between stars. Seven light-years from Earth, the fate of humanity rests with the most unlikely of ships.
As the ship's systems begin catastrophically failing, the crew implements the professor's desperate third option—a risky quantum maneuver that could save them or destroy them all.
As the entity aboard the ship grows stronger, TESS detects anomalous readings throughout the Stupid Backoff. The professor is forced to reveal the truth about his daughter and the artifact that changed her.
Three days into their journey, strange malfunctions plague the Stupid Backoff. As the crew investigates, the professor's secretive behavior raises suspicions, and Luna's unusual behavior suggests something invisible is aboard.
An experiment in story creation