“Bananas” The Sci-Fi/Horror Short Story by Katriona MacMillan

Need a scary eBook to read over the next few days? Bananas, a horror-Sci-fi combo about being lost in space, could be for you.

“Bananas” is a short story about a skeleton crew stuck on a spaceship in the middle of nowhere. Actually, there are only two of them left. The story doesn’t tell you what happens to the others but I’m sure it wasn’t pleasant. This short story is a favourite of mine and has been for years, so I recently released it for eBook purposes on Kindle.

You can buy “Bananas” on Amazon here. Otherwise, keep reading for the full background.

The Setting of “Bananas”

“Bananas” is set on an abandoned space station in the far reaches of G quadrant. The space station itself was built in the 2060s, a remnant of a time when an interplanetary war broke out over the biggest, best resource known to mane: Eternium. Eternium is an ever-burning fuel source that never stops, never falters, and never waivers. The space station the story takes place on opened as a rest stop for miners. A half-way point that marked their return home.

A short while after humans started mining Eternium, a war broke out. Humans were mining too far from home, they made some enemies on the council, they were beaten back to their own planet. Those that made it home remain confined to the solar systems immediately surrounding Earth. Those that didn’t, well. They didn’t. Two of them are stuck out on the floating hunk of junk that makes the Space Station in G Quadrant.

There’s nobody left alive out there and the ones that are alive? You don’t want to meet them.

The Characters in “Bananas” by Katriona MacMillan

There are technically three characters in “Bananas”. One is the more-robot-than-dog Rex. The other is Adam, the sleeping beauty of the crew. The third doesn’t have a name. She is only She – not a doctor and definitely not capable of running a whole space station by herself. She does her best. She’s a botanist, trying to re-grow banana plants in space from a dried up bulb she found in storage. Nobody has ever even seen a banana in generations. It’s a fitting challenge for a crew drifting in the middle of nowhere.

There is one thing they don’t tell you about in training. One thing you don’t realise until you are out there, with no other human contact for over a year, and surrounded by empty pots.

Soil is hard to find in space. And you can’t grow bananas without it.

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