Asesino en las Estrellas (Murder Among the Stars)

This science-fiction serial, "Asesino en las Estrellas" (Murderer in the Stars) by Curtis Garland, is set in the twenty-second century on Epsilon-15, a remote asteroid prison. The narrative opens with Iris, a maintenance worker with violet eyes, fleeing through the asteroid's interior, gripped by fear of an impending, inexplicable horror that threatens the colony's inhabitants. She rushes to contact Rick, a colleague managing atmospheric controls, hoping to warn him of danger—only to discover his corpse grotesquely destroyed by an unidentified corrosive force that has consumed his face and opened his chest cavity. Iris loses consciousness in shock. Doctor Zaya later examines Iris, finding her in deep coma with severe amnesia and neurological shutdown. Commander Hyder, the prison's administrator, confronts a mystery: Rick has vanished from his restricted-access post, and Iris's condition suggests exposure to something catastrophic. The narrative suggests an unspecified deadly threat unknown to the colony's other inhabitants.