Captain Barber’s body floated out into the dark sea of stars. We bound his body in the Earth flag, a traditional captain burial by intergalactic shipping company standards. It was only a courtesy, though, as the captain was not himself when we killed him. This galactic sector we were flying through was called the Dead… Continue reading The Dead Zone
Tag: Flash Fiction
Life, After
“Hey, how’d you die?” someone asked. She rotated her head in its socket to find the source of the question. It was just them in the dark barracks. She had thought she was laying there alone, among the rows of bunkbeds. The questioner was sitting on the edge of a bottom bunk, cleaning his visual… Continue reading Life, After