“Prison Break,” a new piece of flash fiction by Patricia Stewart

The free science fiction story site 365 tomorrows has a refreshing piece of flash fiction titled “Prison Break” (2010), by veteran writer and NASA physicist Patricia Stewart. It’s about a prison break on Mars. Here is the opening line: “The alarm of the Olympia Undae Penitentiary snapped warden Jacobs from a deep sleep.”

[via Tinkoo Valia of Variety SF]