These are troubled times. The Flannigan Administration's hostility to clones has reached a boiling point, resulting in the Expulsions. All of NASA's astronaut clones have been sent to lunar exile in Shepardsport.

Christmas is approaching, and Brenda Redmond is helping put on a musical adaptation of A Christmas Carol. But the three ghosts who visit Scrooge in the classic Charles Dickens story aren't the only ghosts haunting the corridors of Shepardsport.

Even as Brenda is trying to get her young players ready, she must also track down the source of the strange visions that are coming unbidden to the settlement's inhabitants.

A novelette of the Grissom Timeline.