5:30pm and Ruben Wood is sitting on his knees in the white wall-to-wall bathtub staring at the black mould growing between the tiles, also white, but not for much longer. The water stings his thighs but he knows this is only because his skin is cold, and as soon as his horripilated epidermis becomes accustomed [...]
I’ve never had trouble believing in a God who created us in His own image. We are selfish, fickle creatures destined to forever war; whether within our world, or outside it; and who better to have created us than a selfish, fickle God? Humankind still hasn’t broken free of this penchant for holding a [...]
¶ Coleman
“There isn’t a population problem. There’s plenty of space. Look at Naghora – plenty of room. Nobody lives there.”
“… It’s a desert. Nobody lives there because it’s a desert.”
“What? People live in deserts. Why not Naghora?”
Coleman stared at the linoleum tiled floor, resisting the urge to sigh as he listened to the conversation. His fingers [...]
“Ten brachi. That’s it?”
“Yup.”
“That’s all you’re giving?”
“Yup.”
Merle regarded the slight figure for a moment, his eyes shadowed beneath his knotted brows, and then took the coins from her hand before turning around and shambling back into the building. He sighed heavily as his shoulders brushed the walls of the passageway, ducked his head to step [...]
Nobody had ever felt as comfortable in the vast and noisy engine room of a megalithic spaceship as Randy did.
It’s a humbling thing, knowing how many stars there are. Brooks Esposito knew how many stars there were from the age of four. Nobody believed him of course, but he knew. By the age of ten, he could name every discovered star in the nearest systems. At twenty he had graduated as both an astronomer [...]
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