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Dead Weight
Eloise had been silent the whole trip back.
“If you’re still upset about what we revealed on Pan-Gu, all’s golden, alright?”
She stared at Armand blankly. The whole galley did. He pulled the craft into the space station miles above Jupiter. A station security officer greeted them.
“No one talking to me? Suit yourselves,” and Armand stepped down the gangway, past the security officer. “One of my crew will sign your documents.”
He stormed off.
The young officer leaned inside the craft. The stench made his eyes water. He saw five pairs of eyes staring around him, jaws hanging slack.
From Guest Contributor S.R Malone
When I Realised The Earth Wasn’t Flat, I Felt Pretty Damn Foolish
The swarm arrived at the beginning of the week, their language that of war, and humanity the patient listeners.
Continents of flame pulsed now, flickering orange across a world recently gone dark.
Those who could, stayed and fought. Crumbling capitals and plasma-charred skeletons formed the battlefields of Earth by midweek.
Those who couldn’t (and those like myself who wouldn’t), hopped on the soonest evac shuttles to Mars.
I nudge a couple away from the window to catch the last view of a burning Earth from orbit.
The sight haunts me.
After all this time, I had guessed the shape wrong.
From Guest Contributor S.R Malone
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