Rescue Squad

Hal Burnett is twenty-three years old and already in over his head. A mail pilot on his first deep-space run, he miscalculates his trajectory and watch his ship, MR4, drift helplessly toward the Sun. The temperature is rising. The hull is weakening. Escape is impossible. When his desperate radio plea reaches Earth, help is promised but arrives twisted through bureaucracy and deception: the government has been dosing him with a sedative to keep him docile, masking the true timeline of the rescue that may never come. O'Hara digs into the psychological wreckage of a young man confronting his own inadequacy while the void closes in, crafting a cold-war parable about trust, isolation, and the price of survival when the people supposedly saving you are keeping secrets. The tragedy lands not in the stars but in the betrayal of faith itself.