[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":19},["ShallowReactive",2],{"books":3},[4],{"id":5,"title":6,"author":7,"buyUrl":8,"cover":9,"description":10,"extension":11,"featured":12,"meta":13,"readUrl":8,"slug":14,"status":15,"stem":16,"tagline":17,"__hash__":18},"books\u002Fbooks\u002Fdry-mouth.yml","Dry Mouth","Charles Stoneheart","","\u002Fimages\u002Fbooks\u002Fdry-mouth.jpg","Porter Watkins is an NCO on the first Earth infantry tour of Mars. The briefing said nine months, toxic air, and a planet nobody owned. The mouth knew better. Then his major orders the helmets off — and Watkins learns the lining in his lungs is a one-way ticket. There is no going home. Mars already belongs to someone else. What follows is a soldier’s account of a unit that was packed for a claim and used for a war: brothers, knives, a dry country, and the lights that drink the wet out of the air.\n","yml",true,{},"dry-mouth","released","books\u002Fdry-mouth","The problem with Mars is how dry the mouth gets.","4uBgmI31dhl1AxTajYKSm_8q9GwvlNalMWYSGVCa6N4",1787536601423]