E+Drive: The Good Ghost A Tale of Choice

In a universe where starlight is harvested and human grief is distilled into fuel, the starship Acheron serves as both a sanctuary and a psychological prison for its crew. Pilot Mortimer returns to the vessel after an eleven-month shore leave only to discover that his time away was a simulation designed to maintain his "grief-density"-the specific, unresolved sorrow over his daughter's death that the ship's E-Drive requires to navigate deep-potentiality space. As the Acheron flees a Hegemon...