When they first got back to  earth it was nice to be together. There was a special bond, then too Cal seemed to know what to do. Had to get a place to live, he knew how to cook, so they saved money on food. Cal also knew how to...

Group A push Keith into a new rhythm he woke up at 4 before anyone else, ready a cold shower was all he needed to get on with it. He took now an  espresso neat sometimes iced. In a small glass the coffee shop kept just for him. They didn't...

Chris could finally grow hair. Or it was the way he styled it now. What was it five years up in  Spacecity and now he can grow a decent beard. Not like Keith's he was thinking. Always he compared himself to Keith. A habit that started the day he arrived...

The ceramic felt warm against his palms. Warmed by the coffee. But his skin never touched the coffee. Instead the heat transferred through the burnt clay. Fire transformed. Forged something new.

That was why he couldn't feel any different up here in  Spacecity . The cold. It stagnated you. Through the...

Sometimes Max would be in the flow. He pick up burgers with ease. Fill orders quickly, and Linda would be smiling. When he was like this Max would be humming to himself, sometimes he would mouth the words to the songs. Sometimes it would just be a melody. He tried...

20 years from now Cal would be a different person. He would live on earth and he'd be happy. Different than he was now. Things he felt were so important to him he barely remembers, and things he now feels are important wouldn't have even crossed his mind back in ...

Cal visited him in the common area. The supervisors still didn't assign him anything so Cal had nothing but time. On his desk he made it look like he was busy, spreading out a coffee cup, and scribbling notes. But non of it meant anything. 

"Dude man we're kind of...

It didn't register that Keith was going to die. The doctors told him it was the perfect storm, his mother smoked, his dad drank, and he spent almost a decade in space. His body had tried to adapt to all these things and everything else Keith through at it, but...

Cal was getting up. He slept well up here. Everything was made for it, optimized and focused. The most important thing. Or one of them, as they would tell them. There was a hierarchy here, like on earth but it was to help them do the best work. But, unlike...

I told you you shouldn't have been doing that.

Marianna was anxious, and her heart beat she could feel picked up its pace. Last night Keith and her talked too late, and he told her all about what Cal and him did. How it seemed to really be making a...

He looked out the window. earth was in view. He felt small again. Like that moment he realized how high the chewing mouth was above. Keith had tried to get the giraffe to recognize what he had just recognized. That the giraffe was so tall. But the animal gave no...

Man saw that every time urine left his body he would soon die...

if it were not for water . Pure, clear water that he could drink so that he would not run out of blood .

The earth provided so much water. It seemed an endless supply. Man would urinate in...