David Palmer has spent thirty years making human disappearances look orderly.
As Senior Logistics Coordinator for New Geneva’s alien rulers, he balances quotas, clears medical screenings, and sends three hundred young adults a year toward distant extraction colonies. In return, the Protectorate’s Ambrosia treatment has kept him young, healthy, and marked as a collaborator.
Then a transport ship returns after only three days, carrying no passengers and a manifest that claims every obligation has been fulfilled. Inside its hold, David discovers what the tithe truly feeds, and what thousands of names became after his signature moved them beyond human jurisdiction.
With the next cohort days from departure, David stops taking Ambrosia and vanishes from the occupiers’ biometric grid. As twenty-five years of deferred aging tear through his body, he turns the machinery of his career against the harbor he helped supply. But one act of sabotage cannot erase thirty years of obedience, and the system he served was built to survive men like him.
A bleak, visceral science-fiction short story about complicity, body horror, and the terrible distance between paperwork and flesh.
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