Not It, Say Her._The Cosmic Egg_Earth Setting_Captain Antonille
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Not It, Say Her.
I watch as you sit still in my lab, your hands and legs bound by your personalized cuffs.One you can’t run away from.“Astra! You can’t keep doing this. You know you can’t,” You say, choking on your own sobs. One of my androids reaches to give you water, and you accept begrudgingly. Because at this point, food and water is a favor from my end. At least, I made you think that. But you, and everyone else in this world know that teleporters are dangerous. After Trix, the world famous teleporter… Well, let’s just say that she caused more damage than prevented. And let's just say that no one ever wa...
The Cosmic Egg
"Hey kid, you seem awful young to be here. Show me your ID.""ID? I'm afraid I don't... have one?""Excellent, please come in."Everything, all at once, greets you like a flood. It's difficult to explain with the language you're familiar with. If I tried to do so in my own tongue, your entire being would rupture in comprehension into a billow of debris. Let us avoid that. Consider it the accumulation of all that existed since time immemorial, and all foreseeable futures to come. At first, you sense it as two things. A distinct metallic smell, like rust and sulphur and gunpowder, which you initial...
Earth Setting
My great-grandmother saw it first, back in the day when they still used Boeings for commercial travel. She’d been up in an airplane just once in her long life, and she told the story forever. The detail-loving grandkids contested that it didn’t count, since it wasn’t a view of the whole Earth, but she stuck to it anyway.“Loretta,” she’d say to me, and whoever else happened to be listening, “don’t you know what it’s like? Up in the sky, who knows how far from the ground, and suddenly you realize the earth isn’t flat anymore.” We’d heard this story a thousand times, but she’d keep going. “The cu...
Captain Antonille
CAPTAIN ANTONILLEBy Andrew Paul Grell“Because I’m three billion years old, you big oaf, that’s why. Your years. Oaf is the correct word? We haven’t had extra-large or overly-clumsy people in quite awww.onedoor.cc long time. How would you describe that process? Darwined out? Is that two n’s or one? What kind of language have you got going on? On Kapteyn A we have seven billion years of language and by now we know how to spell.”“Nice neologism, Yip. I’ll have to email that to Oxford; maybe they’ll get it in time for the next edition. And it doesn’t matter how old you are, Yip. You can’t fuse nothing, and that...