Posts by Asukafan2001

The cold reached Cindy before the world did.  It came first as a thin blade through the tiny gap in the zipper, a narrow breath of winter slipping into the…

Madison came into her room with the force of the afternoon attached to her.  The bedroom door opened fast, and the hallway noise came in with her for half a…

Ava’s homework came in later, after Brooklyn’s, and with far less fanfare.  There was no video call.  No bright face filling the tablet.  No cheerful interruption, no casual claim, no…

Greg had started on Brooklyn’s science homework. He sat at the little workstation Madison had set up inside the habitat, the tablet propped at an angle in front of him,…

It was noon when Brooklyn called.  The tablet rang with a cheerful little chime that cut through the habitat like a thrown stone.  Greg startled first.  He had been dozing…

  The tablet started ringing.  Greg and Cindy both turned toward it at once.  The sound cut through the habitat with bright, cheerful insistence, too loud for the quiet that…