The Republic of Heaven

Coming when it's ready:

• ‘It was... it was so horrible I still can’t understand it. Not properly. It was so sudden and everybody died so fast. But they didn’t die so quickly they didn’t have time to scream…’
  
  ‘And what happened to you? How did you get away?’
  
  ‘Oh, it was so wrong, so wrong. You see, I was only saved because I was the Captain. I wasn’t with my crew like I should have been.’
  
  ‘You were in your proper station on the bridge, weren’t you?’
  
  ‘Yes I was, but…’
  
  ‘You think you ought to have been on deck with your people. You should have died with them…’
  
  ‘Yes. Yes, I should!’
  
  ‘I’m glad you didn’t, Annie. I should have been even more ashamed if you had.’

Dare I say this one sounds like it will actually answer almost as many questions as it raises?
Looking forward to it

Dare I say this one sounds like it will actually answer almost as many questions as it raises?

The last non-whitespace character in the story is a ?

You mean a
I would hate you for this if I didn't like you so much.

I read a short extract: http://cereswunderkind.net/Media/tsc_mixdown.mp3