The Pointless Pursuit
The Irony of Societal Expectations and Pressures
Ryan was a man with nothing to say
He had finally acknowledged the hypocrisy of his day
Believing the ideal of achieving enormous success
Neglecting his family, now an emotional mess
In the end, he's all alone as the countdown to death keeps ticking away
About the Creator
A.R. Blackwood
The universe is a strange place full of mystery and awe. I love weird fiction that can be scary, awe inspiring, or funny. I am developing my craft and learning how to translate the ideas in my head into cohesive stories. Thanks Vocal!
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Novis
Nobody can hear a scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say. However, one could only imagine the shear horror of what it would feel like to be sucked out into the cosmic void without a spacesuit, like all those passengers that lost their lives on that ill-fated voyage, Columbus 17. They were literally only days away from arriving at the newly terraformed planet Trappist 1e, now formally known as Novis, when a somewhat small, yet extremely destructive meteoroid crashed into a section of the passenger ship that was carrying over one-thousand people. They were migrating to a new world that had all the promise of a better life, while also advancing mankind.
By A.R. Blackwood3 years ago in Fiction
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