Riders of the...

Centauri Range. We read it yesterday and are quite pleased. Surprisingly pleased. Here's the intro to the story:

I wrote this story in 2006, when I was more or less a permanent substitute at Bernards High, Bernardsville, New Jersey. I started there in 2003, 11 years after I graduated high school, which still seemed like a long, long time. I knew I’d been subbing their too long when I was laughing at the same stuff the students laughed at and sounded like a 17-year-old boy at home. I wanted to write about alienated teens, so here’s a trio of them on a bleak planet orbiting Alpha Centauri. This story feels an awful lot like 2006.

We had to change a few dates and here and there some phrasing, But overall Riders of the Centauri Range looks great.