Load Bearing
A story about what team cohesion looks like when the system can measure it — and what it can't.
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by Charlie Forêt
A short story set in the Integration Era.
©2026, by Charlie Forêt, all rights reserved. No portion of this book may be reproduced in any form without permission from the publisher, except as permitted by U.S. copyright law.
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The station's maintenance level smelled like recycled atmosphere and someone's poor decision about a grease fitting, which Maren Okafor found both familiar and deeply comforting. Familiar because she'd run eleven insertion approaches through industrial infrastructure in the past three years and every single one smelled like this.…
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