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The Clustering of The Earthlings
Earth 2156、“W-Who are you?” said the lady, whose sudden appearance had frightened me seconds prior. In my surprise, I had unconsciously jolted backwards while suppressing the urge to scream as loud as my lungs allowed me to. She seemed more terrified than shocked, almost petrified by an indescribable horror that laidwww.onedoor.cc before her eyes. Past the initial shock, I racked my brain to formulate some words but my voice couldn’t come out. It just wouldn’t.The woman finally broke the tension with her query. I uttered that I was an Earthling, to which her expression shifted from fear to bewilderment.“A w...
The last two
The color of the sky was bright orange, with streaks of yellow and pink leaking through the clouds as the sun was setting when I saw him outside of a shop window that I was rummaging through. The sky was significant to me in this moment because it seemed to be celebrating right alongside me, even if I was just dreaming. I rubbed my eyes and then rubbed the glass, thinking maybe I was seeing my own reflection, or maybe I was going crazy. Loneliness does weird things to a body, and I wondered at some point if I would start to lose my mind, wondered if I would start to see people or hear ...
The Last Five Minutes
Most spaceships are designed to give their crew members several flashing warning lights or perhaps a blaring alarm before dropping out of the sky, but my lucky streak just so happens to land me in the only one that isn’t. Here I am, hurtling towards a planet at speeds that will crush me and my crew on impact, and not a single red light to speak of. Even the little "check engine" light next to the gas valve remains stoic and dark. Insurance is never going to cover this damage. Calypso, our wonderful commander-in-training and significant pain in the ass, scuttles around the cockpit examin...
Somewhere Out There
The windows rattled. A too familiar sway of fixtures lifted the Grand Counselor’s eyes upward as the Historian Laureate’s walking-on-marbles stride stopped by at last reaching and grabbing the podium. ‘Please begin,” commanded Director Zo “Over time, the top scientist on Venus noted that decreased volcanic eruption patterns corresponded with a declined rotation speed of the planet. While we were busy exploring space, our molten core depleted. In response, the planet slowed, wobbled, then came to a standstill. Eighty percent of our population died. Animal extinction cascaded leaving food sup...