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Night Shift on Callisto

Name: Night Shift on Callisto
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Rating: 5 (1 reviews)
Author: Arlo Quinn

by Arlo Quinn · published via Smithbook

The only person awake on a moon base, a broken vending machine and a message that should not exist.

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"Read it in twenty minutes and then thought about it all day. The vending machine is a genius idea."

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About this book

Dev Barros works nights on Callisto, alone, monitoring a mining base while a hundred people sleep. The worst thing that ever happens on the night shift is the vending machine eating his coins. Tonight the vending machine gives him a chocolate bar he did not order, with a note wrapped around it in his own handwriting, dated tomorrow. A short, strange science fiction story about the long hours before morning.

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Dev Barros had worked the night shift on Callisto for three years, which meant that for eight hours every night he was the only person awake on the whole moon. He watched the air gauges and the power gauges and the seismic sensors, and at 0300 he walked to the break room and fed coins into a vending machine that had been shipped out from Earth in 2091 and never forgiven anyone for it. The machine ate his coins about one night in four. He had learned to kick it in a particular spot, low on the le

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Title: Night Shift on Callisto
Author: Arlo Quinn
Format: Digital · browser reader
Language: English
Category: Fantasy & Science Fiction
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Publisher: Independent · via Smithbook

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★★★★★ · ire•••@readers.staging.smithbook.test9/30/2026

Weird in the best way

Read it in twenty minutes and then thought about it all day. The vending machine is a genius idea.

About the author

Arlo Quinn

I fix bikes at a little shop in West End, a block back from the river, and I write before work, from about five until the humidity wins. Most of my stories start with something broken and a person stubborn enough to fix it: a relay station on a dead moon, a glass furnace in a flooded city, a bush town where the iron has started to walk. I grew up in Ipswich, read every paperback in the Redbank Plains library by the time I was fourteen, and still think the best crews are the ones that argue about lunch. I share a Queenslander with two housemates, a lot of tools and a possum who lives in the roof and does not pay rent.

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