Test Flight Log 002:
I’ve been asleep for a trillion years.
So, the light speed engines work. The stasis pod alarm clock doesn’t. Great.
Ship’s course history shows I am… Outside the Universe? That can’t be good.
Sensors indicate… Nothing. No galaxies. No stars.
Ok, reading on.
Eighty… billion… years ago the Universe receded. And I kept going.
The ever expanding Universe receded?
Ah. The Big Crunch. Shoot.
Options… Turn the ship around, re-enter stasis… fly straight into a new Big Bang?
Nope.
The past, behind, is destroyed. Ahead, the future is unmade.
Keep going.
I can only keep going.
Part 1 in the tiny All Things trilogy.
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