Stories tagged “impact”
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Impact
We saw it coming for years, a long period piece of ort cloud debris the perigee whose orbit brought it almost perfectly to the orbit of Earth. But it was massive, well massive for a wandering planet, about twice the mass of Earth. As the calculations c...
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Impact
I’m in the living room having my first beer of the night when I hear a crash and a scream. The crash doesn’t scare me—my Mellie isn’t exactly the most coordinated person I know—but the scream does. I grab my gun, which is ...
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Determination
There’s an obnoxious whirring. It’s probably the sound of the flywheel spinning unfettered, assuming its linkage has been wrenched out of place. Forward motion has been abruptly halted, causing nerve endings to seize as they process the vio...
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Moment With Poseiden
The sun caresses face and back, free of restraint or judgment. Waves roll in, each unique and glorious in their insistence. Sand swirls in the undertow and under toe. I am bounded by the water, held in its embrace. I sway with the motion, brace for the...