Here’s this week’s entry for the 100 Word Stories Podcast’s Weekly Challenge. The theme was Nightingale

Stranded, Part 9

Josh ran into the ship’s med section, using the last of his strength, he pressed his hand against the biometric scanner, the hatch opened.

He quickly climbed into the Nightingale, Mk IV., careful not to shift the cloth that kept the blood from gushing out of his leg.

It was foresight that Space Command included the automated med machine, without it he would be dead.

It would take the Nightingale at least two weeks to regenerate the large chuck of flesh that was missing. Then he would take care of that little red beast that had tried to eat him.

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