Written in 365 Parts: 189: How Are We Going To Get In?
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The huge lump of rock wasn’t an asteroid, it was a ship. Marsh marvelled at the sheer absurdity of that fact. Perhaps at some stage in the past there had…
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Written in 365 Parts: 188: A Huge Lump of Rock
The stealthed ship that they had been tracking had taken a slow route to its final destination. It moved in an elongated arc to intercept the rock that allowed it…
Written in 365 Parts: 187: Out of Contract
“Alison Kendrick, huh.†Marsh smiled at Drick, “I See where you get the Drick from. And it is less obvious to abuse a nickname like Drick than say a nickname…
Written in 365 Parts: 186: What Was Your Name?
“Painful as in physical? Or painful as in emotional?†Marsh asked. “Both. It concerns my death and what came after.†Drick studied his reaction to that. “Okay, that’s not usually…
Written in 365 Parts: 185: Conspiracy Theory
Drick and Marsh had been in space for fifteen weeks. The journey to the far reaches of the system had taken close to ten weeks, when the course had been…
Written in 365 Parts: 184: Simulacra
“You are awake.†the voice again. Devoid of emotion. “Am I?†the thought was partly directed at the voice, partly at themselves. Without any philosophy implied as to what is…
Written in 365 Parts: 183: All Sensation Ended
There was a sense of self. Where there had only been images, random emotions, now there was an understanding. Thoughts, not just impressions. There was a sense of existing. But…
Written in 365 Parts: 182: Easily Into The Darkness
Flashes. Firecrackers going off in the head, behind the eyes. Firecrackers in the street popping and bursting. Clouds of smoke and flashing lights. Neon dragons and screaming children. Laughter from…
Written in 365 Parts: 181: Generation Ship
Drick stared at Marsh for a moment before answering. “I can’t be precise. I would imagine it is a courier of some kind. I thought it might be someone from…
Written in 365 Parts: 180: What Else Do You Know
Marsh unclipped the harness that was securing him to a chair and slowly stood up. The ship was still accelerating away from the surface but they had reached an altitude…