Katherine Grant
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A poet & novelist from the Bronx. Also possibly a werewolf.
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Lying Eyes
The difference between seven minutes in the sky and seven minutes on the ground has always been something to be marveled at throughout history. Seven minutes at cruising altitude aboard a commercial airline could carry one over ten miles, dependent upon several factors such as turbulence and aircraft design. Seven minutes by foot could often get Nero from his second-floor studio apartment to the corner of Grand Concourse, depending on how desperately he needed to meet his dealer. On December 29, 2025, seven minutes was now all it took for Nero to surpass the Earth’s atmosphere and enter orbit, destined for the International Space Station aboard an old Falcon Heavy. SpaceX decided to get human-rating certification for the craft once its successor, the Starship, finally landed on Mars without crashing in 2023 after two failed attempts by prototypes in the years before. Kenneth Harlow, the mission commander of the first ever Lunar Lottery Flight, explained these details to the only civilian aboard, the lucky lottery winner, in tour guide fashion as they watched the billowing clouds beneath them begin to dissipate and reveal the emerald and sapphire sphere that they all called home, eventually looking nothing superior to a marble in the sack of a schoolyard child’s pocket decades before technology brainwashed the joys of simplicity.
By Katherine Grant4 years ago in Futurism
The Bath
I was not inside my physical body at that point, hovering somewhere along the ceiling watching the events unfold below. The length of his still body was now stretched across the living room floor surrounded by paramedics. I stood a few feet away meekly mumbling unanswered questions, a card given to me by a stranger on the streets of San Diego a year ago with an unknown saint depicted on it clutched between my trembling fingers. To this day, I still cannot tell you the name of that saint, but I was praying to whoever would listen. It was the first time I had prayed since I was a child.
By Katherine Grant4 years ago in Motivation
