life in Space; squatters on Mars; part 8
fiction
edward w pritchard
One morning up here on Mars you awake suddenly with an intense desire to physically see the Earth again. Later at night you look desperately back toward where you know Earth should be. For so long you have had this reassuring conviction that Earth existed and was exactly where you knew it was, familiar, solid, material. With quiet panic you scan vast space above and beyond but Earth is gone dissolved into vastness of Space.
You are like an old man suddenly aware his youth is gone. All along you knew it happened to everyone and everything. Now for the first time it is concrete and here for you. Earth has traveled through space at 87,000 miles per hour following the Sun about the Milky Way for billions of miles since you were born, and both Earth and Mars have followed the Sun across the Milky Way about the expanding Universe going nowhere. Just like that it's ending soon, at least for you. Is there a super Nova in store for us all at our end and will anyone be watching for the flash of the momentary light.
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