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Faster Than Light
Written by: Johnny Roque
This episode is also available as a blog post: https://smirkfiction.wordpress.com/2022/01/06/faster-than-light/
Several space monkeys heads melted away in the early testing of the rocket that Forrester sent out of the atmosphere. NASA and almost every other space program in the world dropped the idea of flying faster than light after human test subjects returned in a scramble egg mush. These pilots, literally some of the best soldiers last voyage ended in a mop and bucket. The images alone looked terrifying. They leaked, no pun intended, out into the world the same way everything else leaks to the public eye; a quick camera snap that later finds its way into the world wide web. All of those pilots held several degrees in math and science that provided them little assistance in survival. I know that my intelligence in a comparison puts me in the back of the class, but at least I made the class.
Forrester, the world's fastest growing tech company felt the desire to grow out of this world. They looked at the universe to see their future. I saw my future in them. The danger scared off many applicants, but personally I like the fail or succeed aspect of it. Toss a coin and one of two outcomes happen every time. I like those odds. Shoot me into the sky. I want my knees to shake and my spine to tingle. I dread the fact that I look at the stars and they stay so far away.
On the launch date I scratched every part of my body. In case I might miss that part after it evaporates. The rockets lit. I never saw anything more breathtaking in my life. Colors started to fade into streams of white beams. Moments felt like hours. Blinking took days. Faster than light put me in a place that made me realize the fraction of life we all live. I muscled my entire being to stay in its shape. My cells wanted to slip off back into normal time, but I concentrated them to stay together. One single thought that went off my course might turn my body into a evaporated red mist. Once it all slowed down I vibrated nonstop.
It took several weeks to finally slow down. I know that floating in space sounds terrifying, but I surpass fear. I no longer hunger or sleep. I just wait until the rest of the world finally catches up to me.
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By Johnny RoqueWritten by: Johnny Roque
This episode is also available as a blog post: https://smirkfiction.wordpress.com/2022/01/06/faster-than-light/
Several space monkeys heads melted away in the early testing of the rocket that Forrester sent out of the atmosphere. NASA and almost every other space program in the world dropped the idea of flying faster than light after human test subjects returned in a scramble egg mush. These pilots, literally some of the best soldiers last voyage ended in a mop and bucket. The images alone looked terrifying. They leaked, no pun intended, out into the world the same way everything else leaks to the public eye; a quick camera snap that later finds its way into the world wide web. All of those pilots held several degrees in math and science that provided them little assistance in survival. I know that my intelligence in a comparison puts me in the back of the class, but at least I made the class.
Forrester, the world's fastest growing tech company felt the desire to grow out of this world. They looked at the universe to see their future. I saw my future in them. The danger scared off many applicants, but personally I like the fail or succeed aspect of it. Toss a coin and one of two outcomes happen every time. I like those odds. Shoot me into the sky. I want my knees to shake and my spine to tingle. I dread the fact that I look at the stars and they stay so far away.
On the launch date I scratched every part of my body. In case I might miss that part after it evaporates. The rockets lit. I never saw anything more breathtaking in my life. Colors started to fade into streams of white beams. Moments felt like hours. Blinking took days. Faster than light put me in a place that made me realize the fraction of life we all live. I muscled my entire being to stay in its shape. My cells wanted to slip off back into normal time, but I concentrated them to stay together. One single thought that went off my course might turn my body into a evaporated red mist. Once it all slowed down I vibrated nonstop.
It took several weeks to finally slow down. I know that floating in space sounds terrifying, but I surpass fear. I no longer hunger or sleep. I just wait until the rest of the world finally catches up to me.