Recap:

Part One

Part Two

Part Three

Part Four

Part Five

In part 5, our thinly-veiled tropes . . . err, characters . . . received their draft notices. Existentialist debates and really bad foreshadowing followed. (Looking back, I’m pretty sure the ‘drafting people based on psych evals’ was (air fingers quote) borrowed (air fingers quote) from Joe Haldeman’s The Forever War. At one time I owned at least three copies, each of a slightly different version. That, I suppose, is the one bad thing of culling your dead tree collection of books in favor of digital. But I digress . . .

Onward with the awful!