Sarah Wernher
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Mel's Planet
When the astronomers first spotted it in the sky, thousands of lightyears away, they thought that it was some sort of asteroid. No one really knows how or why it suddenly appeared, only that one day there was an empty patch of black space within the view of the Hubble telescope, and the next there was a mysterious celestial body emitting a piercing blue light. It didn’t take long for the scientists to determine that it was racing toward Earth, so they nicknamed it Mel’s Comet, after the researcher who saw it first.
By Sarah Wernher5 years ago in Psyche
The End Of Alone
She I struggle to meet his eyes over the glass of merlot that sits in front of me, which the waiter poured with a flourish at my stuttering request. Everything in the restaurant flickers, bathed in candlelight, and I fear the other diners will sense the threadbare nervousness of my presence. I stare into the wine and imagine myself immersed in its glowing red, sinking into the fire and blood of its rich color while the delicate piano music resonates through the liquid.
By Sarah Wernher5 years ago in Humans
My Sylvia
No matter what you think at the end of this, don’t feel sorry for the old man. Once I saw him scream at a child for scuffing his fine leather shoes while he brushed past amongst the throng of workers dragging themselves toward the roaring steel foundry at the center of town. I remember the white tracks that the young boy’s tears cut across his grimy cheeks as the old man shook him, raging about the vermin offspring of the city’s disenfranchised, the criminals and the hookers and the addicts. I half expected him to eat the boy alive.
By Sarah Wernher5 years ago in Humans
