The man stood on his porch in the dark. It was always dark here, but he liked standing on the porch looking out into that inky blackness. Not for any particular reason, he mused, deflecting himself from the true reason for his regular vigils. He lived alone, as, he assumed, did everyone else. It was […]
Waiting was always painful for her, but waiting for her loved one had taken that pain to new heights.
While it would be no lie to say that they’d both sacrificed a lot to finally be able to touch each other, to hug, to kiss, to sit next to each other in companionable silence, just soaking in each other’s presence. It was more true that her loved one, sitting in an passenger plane, with its cramped seating in the pressurized narrow metal tube, held aloft by human ingenuity and the roaring deafening sound of its engines, and, of course, the inordinate financial cost of such an endeavour, had made the greater sacrifice.
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2nd Year Cadet Brannigan pulled hard on the controls, sending his small training craft diving away from the attack drone. It flew in behind his craft, forcing Brannigan to duck and weave to prevent it getting a simulated weapons lock. The Asteroid field was coming up fast, it would provide both cover and obstacles.Pushing his
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