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“Nothing is Forever”

Tired of fighting with mom, and knowing that dad doesn’t really care
Ann had to be somewhere else, and it didn’t matter where.
So she runs away from home, going to the park right down the street,
She decides she just live here forever, and her life will be complete.

As the evening falls, blanketing Ann with the starlit night,
She looks up into the heavens, enjoying the galactic sight.
All those different worlds, it’s hard to fathom that it ever ends
The stars will always be there, unlike her family and friends.

But as Ann sees a shooting star quickly fade away and die,
She realizes nothing is forever, not even the stars in the sky.
Some of the twinkling lights above, are already dead and gone
Their worlds faded away to nothing, never waking to another dawn.

And one day in the future, the Andromeda Galaxy will swallow us whole
Even though it’s not for a while, Ann knows it’s out of our control.
Everything is temporary, even all of her problems and her fears,
Obsessing over the day to day almost seems like a waste of tears.

Even if the ‘now’ feels like forever, nothing will ever last
And everything that’s wrong today will tomorrow be in the past.

Ann breathes in the cool air, soothed by the night so vast and deep.
And when the sun finally rises, she sneaks back home to go to sleep.

(Thank you to Chiara from Doublethink Design for giffing this for me!)

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“The Descent into Space”

Cordelia Gable tries to silence the incessant, useless beeping of her ship’s controls, but the piercing electronic BLEEOOP, BLEEEEEOOOP continues.

She already knows that there’s an emergency, she doesn’t need the God damned warning sirens going off to remind her.  She feels like she’s being driven mad by the distraction… all of the stupid flashing lights and noises.  Pointless.

With the fuel leak, there isn’t much time for a decision to be made— stay connected to the main vessel and risk igniting the minerals she’s towing back from the asteroid belt and ride the remaining inertia (hopefully) back to Earth, OR… disconnect and save the precious cargo but sentence herself to a sure, solitary death floating in space.

Cordelia had already decided years ago what she’d do in this sort of situation… if she ruins the cargo, she’ll not only face heavy fines, but she’ll lose her career, her certification, possibly even jail time… even if she is rescued, it’s pointless.  Her life is over.

So she presses the purge button, and feels the pressure change suck the air out of her ears as her cockpit unlocks itself from the vessel and ejects backwards, descending into open space.

At least the God damned beeping will stop.  Dying will be worth it just for that.

Unfortunately, the endless flashing and beeping continues, as she she drifts off into the black emptiness of the Milky Way.

(Starring the amazing Cordelia Gable of cordeliagablewrites.tumblr.com!)
(And a special thank you to Fatma for giffing this for me!)

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“The Long Journey Across the Galaxy”

After hearing the hiss and click of the last hibernation tank as it pressurizes and seals in his shipmates, Harrison Daniels quietly lifts his lid and makes sure everyone is frozen in their pod…

In 31 years when they finally reach the asteroid belt they’ll wake up, but for now the coast is clear.  He has the room to himself.

As there’s no oxygen being pumped into this part of the ship (since everyone is meant to be in their tank, frozen for the journey), Harrison quickly grabs a spare oxygen mask and climbs up onto the round windowsill overlooking the galaxy.

He’s not sure why he snuck out of his tank, but as he watches the distant field of stars stream by as the mining ship rockets along at lightspeed, he’s glad he did.

His mind struggles to comprehend the enormous scope of the galaxy stretched out before him, and while he feels a deep connection to it all, it also leaves him feeling totally insignificant.  His problems, his worries… they couldn’t matter.

Thinking back, Harrison realizes he’s never actually been alone his entire life.  Family, spouses, friends… and in 31 years when they reach the belt, he’ll never have a moment to himself.  All he has is this, right now.

He tells himself that he has to do this again, somehow… for longer than just a few hours.  It’s nice.

But, he has responsibilities still, and everyone will notice if they arrive at the asteroid belt and he’s the only one who has aged the 31 years (not to mention, he has no food— the hibernation tank is meant to nourish him as as they travel).

Taking one last long look out the window, Harrison gets back into his tank, and goes to sleep.

Originally Posted 10/10/2012

(A very special thanks to Kyle Harter for giffing this for me!)

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“The Black Hole at the Center of the Galaxy”

The long dormant electronics creak and moan while R-EM1 the Droid snaps out of its hibernation mode and the ship’s console comes alive for the first time in 300 years… its’ gears and joints stiff, the robot looks out, and slowly but instinctively scans its surroundings while it tries to remember exactly what it’s doing out here in the emptiness of space.

Outside the window, R-EM1 finds its optic sensors transfixed upon a swirling gigantic blacker-than-black mass in the distance, unsure of what its looking at but knowing it is significant, until it glances down at the digital readout on the monitor— it’s the black hole at the center of the galaxy.

Upon that realization, memory floods back into the robot’s hard drive as its little-used circuits warm up, helping R-EM1 remember his mission… his mission to circle the black hole at its event horizon, just out of reach of its immense gravitational pull, and to continue circling for 500 years before returning back to Earth.

Since time moves differently the closer one is to a gravitational force such as a black hole, time within the ship will feel steady… but back on Earth, thousands of years will have passed.  The robot will be rocketing into the future, returning to an assumeably vastly different Earth, where it will be studied and treated as a time capsule of sorts, each read-out and scrap of its framework being picked apart and studied as the 5000 year long experiment comes to fruition. 

And, R-EM1 hates it.

So, R-EM1 plans to fire the ship’s atomics at the heart of the black hole, theoretically creating a chain reaction that causes the entire galaxy to collapse and all life in the Milky Way to end.  Ohhh, it sounds like bliss to the exhausted R-EM1… no more robots being used for these scientists’ games, no more war, no more heartbreak, no more death (after the initial “everyone dies” phase, of course)… if there were history books to be written after everything is destroyed, which there won’t be, but if there were, R-EM1 is sure that it’d be treated as the hero it believes it is.  A champion for all of Living-Kind.  Everything will make sense then…

R-EM1 overrides the defense mechanisms meant to prevent someone from doing exactly what it is trying to do, and the atomic missiles blast into the inky darkness of the black hole, swallowed up quickly by it’s enormous gravitational pull.  And then, R-EM1 waits.

And waits.

And then waits some more.

Something should be happening by now… the chain reaction that collapses the entire galaxy and destroys everything we know SHOULD be chain reacting-ing, but the black hole just sits there, almost taunting poor R-EM1.  The atomics didn’t matter at all, the black hole didn’t even flinch.  It couldn’t care less about what R-EM1 wants to do.

For 7 years R-EM1 floats there, depressed and sullen about its plan not even coming close to working… Stupid, stupid, STUPID it repeats to itself endlessly, as the pathetic failure of the plan plays over and over within its memory banks.

Finally, pouting all the way, the robot decides it should just do what it was created to do, and begins to circle the black hole for the next 500 years. 

Oh well… :-/

Can’t just sit here and do nothing, after all.

Posted 11/27/2012

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“The Long Journey Across the Galaxy”

After hearing the hiss and click of the last hibernation tank as it pressurizes and seals in his shipmates, Harrison Daniels quietly lifts his lid and makes sure everyone is frozen in their pod…

In 31 years when they finally reach the asteroid belt they’ll wake up, but for now the coast is clear.  He has the room to himself.

As there’s no oxygen being pumped into this part of the ship (since everyone is meant to be in their tank, frozen for the journey), Harrison quickly grabs a spare oxygen mask and climbs up onto the round windowsill overlooking the galaxy.

He’s not sure why he snuck out of his tank, but as he watches the distant field of stars stream by as the mining ship rockets along at lightspeed, he’s glad he did.

His mind struggles to comprehend the enormous scope of the galaxy stretched out before him, and while he feels a deep connection to it all, it also leaves him feeling totally insignificant.  His problems, his worries… they couldn’t matter.

Thinking back, Harrison realizes he’s never actually been alone his entire life.  Family, spouses, friends… and in 31 years when they reach the belt, he’ll never have a moment to himself.  All he has is this, right now.

He tells himself that he has to do this again, somehow… for longer than just a few hours.  It’s nice.

But, he has responsibilities still, and everyone will notice if they arrive at the asteroid belt and he’s the only one who has aged the 31 years (not to mention, he has no food— the hibernation tank is meant to nourish him as as they travel).

Taking one last long look out the window, Harrison gets back into his tank, and goes to sleep.

Posted 10/10/2012

(A very special thanks to Kyle Harter for giffing this for me!)

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“Hold All My Calls, I’m Going To Space”

Hold all my calls, I’m going to space.
Taking some time off from the human race.
Maybe you can find me hanging out on the moon;
I know my schedule’s packed, but I’m leaving soon.

Perhaps a run around Saturn’s rings, then a nice nap on Mars.
Far away from Earth’s manufactured drama, pollution, and cars.
You can try to forward my emails, but I won’t be able to be reached
And I’ll be silently praying, that my ship’s hull will be breached.

Then I’ll be sucked out into the dark open vacuum of space!
Floating amongst the stars, a big smile on my face :-D
Don’t bother leaving a voicemail, cause I ain’t coming home
For the rest of my days, the Milky Way I shall roam.

Originally Posted 1/18/2012

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“The Ghosts of Earth”, a Haiku

We all die someday.
But our ghosts search for new worlds,
To haunt once again.

Originally Posted 1/4/2012

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“Hold All My Calls, I’m Going To Space”

Hold all my calls, I’m going to space.
Taking some time off from the human race.
Maybe you can find me hanging out on the moon;
I know my schedule’s packed, but I’m leaving soon.

Perhaps a run around Saturn’s rings, then a nice nap on Mars.
Far away from Earth’s manufactured drama, pollution, and cars.
You can try to forward my emails, but I won’t be able to be reached
And I’ll be silently praying, that my ship’s hull will be breached.

Then I’ll be sucked out into the dark open vacuum of space!
Floating amongst the stars, a big smile on my face :-D
Don’t bother leaving a voicemail, cause I ain’t coming home
For the rest of my days, the Milky Way I shall roam.

Posted 1/18/2012

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Allison Fletcher was mad at Bradley Charles because she said that he left her alone too much at the party and she had no one to talk to and she had told him not to do that and Bradley said they were her friends too and at the very least she had Sarah there and Allison said that Sarah was busy trying to talk to Daniel and she doesn’t like Sarah that much anyways and you know that and Daniel says he didn’t know that and Allison says it doesn’t matter because you know that she is shy at parties and for you to leave her like that after she told you and Daniel interrupts and says he didn’t know he had to babysit her at a friend’s house because they’re her friends too and—

It all becomes moot, though, as right at that moment the outer rings of the Andromeda Galaxy collide with the smaller Milky Way, completely absorbing our solar system, and instantly devours and obliterates all known life on the tiny planet of Earth.

Posted 12/4/2011

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