nanofiction
The Dark Forest
It’s rare for two neighbor worlds to harbor complex life. Actually: no. It’s rare for two neighbor worlds to harbor complex life… for long
Background Noise
Earth’s epitaph was media steadily deteriorating in clarity as it traveled before becoming background static as with countless worlds before
Earth’s Epitaph
In one billion years, land was uninhabitable. By two billion, the oceans were gone. As Earth prepared to die, no one was left to cry.
Generation Ship
Rocki spent her whole life on a spaceship. She gingerly arrived on the new world. The terraforming had gone wrong.. There were no survivors.
Priorities
If he had known today was going to be his last day alive, he would have called her instead of finally starting to try to learn Farsi.
Shrugs, not tears, are a tragedy
The sparse, silent bystanders at Ezra’s interment evidenced the true tragedy: it wasn’t that he’d died alone- it was that he’d lived alone.
His subconscious was really depressed, too
As he reread his dream journal, the thing that depressed him the most was that This was what he had meant by ‘happy.’
Eat your heart out, little child
They say the saddest story is when a parent has to bury his or her child. George and Tamsen Donner disagreed.
Ironically, he didn't see it coming.