Progenitor

Yet another system malfunction plagues technician David Straise. Communications with the drill team have gone down on rig 86, an outdated and forgotten machine plunged into a far off moon where its team hunt for minerals and bacterial samples. David is ordered to suit up and head into the pit. The heart of the dead rock that is filled with a deadly poison atmosphere and shifting gravity, they say you're alone in the dark down there, that nothing could live down in the pit. They were wrong. A science fiction horror short story by Peter Wellan