Dai­ly Moon Dis­patch – 20 Sep­tem­ber 2026

The Moon is wax­ing gib­bous as seen from Earth.

Con­rad is still in night; sun­rise fol­lows First Quar­ter by about two days at this longitude.

The long lunar night con­tin­ues at Con­rad Sta­tion. Out­side there is only Earth­light on the regolith and the hard black of vac­u­um. Earth hangs high above the sta­tion. Sur­face activ­i­ty remains min­i­mal. Life con­tin­ues inside the habi­tats under arti­fi­cial light, where the qui­et tech­ni­cal mar­gins that keep every­one alive stay ful­ly in force.

Jim Ross — Coot­er to any­one who has been here long enough — is the kind of sta­tion reg­u­lar who knows which items were sup­posed to go back, and which con­ver­sa­tions should stay in the infir­mary doorway.

This is hard sci­ence fic­tion lunar fron­tier ter­ri­to­ry: thin mar­gins, three-day lags, and peo­ple try­ing to stay human while the vac­u­um waits outside.

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Coming This Week

• Mon­day: When the Alarm Sounds
• Tues­day: Nin­ja Cranston
• Wednes­day: The Mountain
• Thurs­day: Sur­vive

Recommended Reading Order

• The Luna­dyne Inci­dent → https://www.amazon.com/Lunadyne-Incident-Other-Stories-Fabulae-ebook/dp/B0D5F7L3QS
• Thun­der Moon Tus­sle → https://www.amazon.com/Thunder-Moon-Tussle-Torn-MacAlester-ebook/dp/B095BXX6YC
• Mask of the Joy­ful Moon → https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0G16F7MQW

All three books remain available:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0G16F7MQW

The Joy­ful Moon is still watching…
and the long night continues.

— Torn MacAlester
Still rid­ing the trails with Nils, Gen, and the whole Fab­u­lae Lunae crew
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