I had just purposefully flunked my academy entrance exam so
I could stay another year in traditional high school living with my
grandparents. Those peers of mine might have thought it was irresponsible and
unorthodox.
But my grandparents had understood.
That thought prompted me to look out the window again, at
the vast expanse of space. Which of the stars out there was Earth’s sun? I
would have to ask my dad later, so I could wave at Grandma and Grandpa now and
then.
Movement drew my glance upward. A large ship – a freighter
by the blockish look of it – approached one of the docking towers reaching far
above the station.
“Is that ship going to hit the tower?” Jay asked.
“No, of course not,” I replied. Distances in space could be
deceiving – that probably wasn’t spaceship pilot rule number-one, but it had to
be rule number somewhere-between-two-and-five. “It just looks like it from this
–”
I stopped myself there.
Right at impact(From
Rift Watcher, by C R Simper) Read More
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