From: Dean Plasmafist
To: Hindsight Girl

We regret to inform you that you were not selected for Enforcer Academy. Your ability to make people reconsider decisions, while amusing, is too mundane a superpower for our prestigious training program.

On second thought, perhaps we were too hasty. Welcome to the Academy!

David Dezell Turner is an astrodynamics PhD student at the University of Colorado Boulder. When he isn’t giving directions to real spaceships, he’s writing about fictional ones. Check out more of his work at daviddezellturner.com.