250 is the new 185 |
I sat one evening in the square gazing up at the Eye of Knowledge when Spaceo appeared next to me. "Any news of Earth"? he asked. I shook my head, never taking my eyes from the visual array. "I bring ...
Posted by Havablast on Sun, 04 Feb 2007 01:04:00 PST |
Creativity begets creativity |
It was time to get busy. Time to get plugged in. I took any and every job I was capable of doing, giving it my full attention, so as to fit in and become part of Luminoid society. But it was hard. Tho...
Posted by Havablast on Sun, 04 Feb 2007 07:58:00 PST |
The first day of school |
My first day on Lumin was simply stellar. They turned my arrival into a gala event with music and dancing and spectacular light shows that lit up the whole city. The next day however, they were all ba...
Posted by Havablast on Sun, 04 Feb 2007 07:49:00 PST |
Rescued! |
I'm not sure my eyes ever made it all the way shut, when I was rudely awakened by the high-pitched scream of a plasma beam shearing off the glass shield on my cell. It came off with the greatest of ea...
Posted by Havablast on Mon, 29 Jan 2007 09:39:00 PST |
The long, cold silence |
Days blurred one into another. Weeks passed and the effects of drifting were beginning to take its toll on my mind. Guilt and depression overcame me. Could I have been premature in my decision to nuke...
Posted by Havablast on Mon, 29 Jan 2007 09:27:00 PST |
May Day, May Day..! |
The last thing I remember is stepping into my hyber-cell for a long-awaited nap before we reached the outer rim. We were on our return to Earth from Beta sector, 338 days out and I had been burning t...
Posted by Havablast on Mon, 29 Jan 2007 09:14:00 PST |
