I stumbled across Andy Weir's "The Egg" micro-story again today. It's very short and pretty good. It's also freely available on his website. IMO, it is a good use of the couple of minutes it takes to read it.
https://www.galactanet.com/oneoff/theegg.html
Tom Sellers
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