“T – minus five minutes and counting.” “All systems are go, repeat, all systems are go.” “This is mission commander. Recheck all systems and calibrate time keeping devices.” “T minus 4 minutes and forty-five seconds…mark.” Time. The only commodity we cannot buy or sell. The most precious aspect of life. The one thing humanity cannot [...]
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“Thanks for seeing me on such short notice, Doctor,” the nervous young man said as he extended his hand. As the doctor shook the man’s pale hand, he noted that it felt unusually cold. “Certainly. From your phone call it sounded rather urgent, and I just happened to have a cancellation.” He gestured for the [...]
The spotlights followed the young dancer she walked across the stage amid thundering applause, green lights flashing wildly on the scoreboard on the wall behind her. She paused one more time to bow deeply in evident relief, then disappeared behind the curtain. The jazzy interstitial music swelled and the the spots swung back across the [...]
For hours, the chatter of crickets had been the only sound along this stretch of night-time highway until the sound of a distant car engine gradually emerged from somewhere off to the right. As the sound grew, a glow from the same direction began to eclipse the moonlight. The sound and light increased swiftly until [...]
