Showing posts with label starjacks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label starjacks. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Wednesday, September 1, 2010

Leaving Home


Let me tell you in those early days it felt like the fabric of things might disintegrate. I mean, our friends and everything seemed mostly normal. But odd moments started to occur. Flashes, really. Weird sensations of everything coming apart. Our eyes were reduced to seeing in pixels. There were tinglings all over like being bombarded by molecules. We didn’t mind at first. The sensations were a kick. Then there started being a kind of tug, as if we were being pulled toward – what?

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Thursday, August 19, 2010

Billings gets a call


It was the last transmission Billings received. One moment he was Mason Billings, captain of a mineral scow in the Sheckley Sector, the next he was Captain Dixon of Earth IV, a venerable old ship that had travelled three times to the Far Reaches. In his reflective moments, between starhops or upon waking from suspended animation, he remembered something about beach balls and polar bears.

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