5/24/2023 0 Comments Star Girl by jerry-spinelliWhen he lifted his foot away the cleats of his boot hadn’t so much as disturbed a regolith grain. He stepped forward, lifted his foot, and set it down in the print. And here was a “crater” that was elongated, and neatly ribbed. The rising light cast strong shadows, sharply illuminating the miniature crevices and craters there. He looked down at the ground at his feet. He could actually feel its heat through the layers of his suit. But, surely to God, there is only one Orion.”Īnd then light, dazzling, unbearably brilliant, came stabbing over the close horizon. She whispered, “There must be lots of universes like ours. And there was a rough rectangle of stars around them-one of them a distinctive red-and what looked like a Galaxy disc, or maybe just a nebula, beneath … He saw three stars, dull white points, in a row. “So what?”Įmma was lifting her arm, pointing. He looked down into her face, and pushed up her gold sun visor. She was lying in his arms, her weight barely registering. He had loped out of the portal onto another stretch of scuffed, anonymous regolith. How much of this crap was he supposed to take? He felt exhausted, resentful, bewildered. The human mind had evolved for just one universe, he thought. “It got to the point where he didn’t even look up at the sky any more as he blundered back and forth.
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