Chitterfield is a novella set in the dark sci-fi and cyberpunk ChromaSpyke universe by Alexander Mharcei.
CHITTERFIELD is a massive deep-space communication relay hidden inside a nest of inertia dampeners, built to endure anything the galaxy can throw at it. Ships move faster than messages. Chitterfield makes sure the messages arrive. It would be madness to sneak inside, worse still to survive what lives there. The only thing more dangerous is spending a lifetime toiling for the corporations that use it.
Deira is a thief, and Chitterfield is the score she was never meant to reach. Smuggled aboard a cassette ship and disguised among corpse units, she enters the station during a narrow transfer window where time itself works against her. Inside the dampener fields, seconds stretch, systems cycle slowly, and every delay gives security more time to adapt.
Chitterfield is not empty. It is alive with hidden infrastructure, flooded corridors, inverted jungles, and defensive systems that do not simply detect intruders. They hunt them. As Deira pushes deeper toward one of the station’s control centers, she realizes the real danger is not being caught, but running out of time before the station finishes responding. The longer she remains inside Chitterfield, the more lethal it becomes.
Chitterfield is a claustrophobic cyberpunk space horror story about theft under impossible constraints, hostile megastructures, and the cost of surviving systems designed to slow you down until you break.
This is a robbery that was never meant to succeed.
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