“Just remember
to be yourself.”
Rich Little* #quote
Today I went to my card game shenanigans, a birthday party of
another family member(oh, family gatherings, what fun!) and had
dinner at their place as well. A fun day indeed. Anyway onto the
flash fiction!
The Edge Of The Universe
After humanity developed the ability to travel faster than light we
went out to answer the question “what lies at the edge of space”?
If there is an edge at all. My crew was the one to the embark on that
voyage to just keep going and going as far as we could go, even
pushing past where light had come from for billions of years. All
that we've seen with satellites and all that photons have ever
reached from traveling since the start of the Big Bang. Yup, I was
going to the one of the fine men and women to go beyond the reaches
of where the Big Bang had tossed matter.
The warp drive had been going on for days now. (Yes, it was called a
warp drive. The inventor insisted it was called that. She said it had
to be called that or she wouldn't finish it. Odd woman the inventor
of the warp drive. She's long passed now. She lived before even the
colonization of Mars.)
“Doctor Davidson! I see the edge!” One of my crewmen shouted
over the monitor. This was the worst possible moment as I needed to
go to the bathroom. But yet the edge of the universe called me. I
held it in as
I dashed from my current position in the lower bridge
to the upper bridge so I could see our viewing screens in full. The
ships of our modern times did emulate many of the “science fiction”
shows of old, with a “bridge” full of chairs and control panels
and viewing screens. We used viewing screens because direct windows
next to space would be a very bad idea. But the cameras gave us a
good enough view of the edge anyway.
The final bits of light and debris
from the Big Bang were fading away, the last parts of our universe. We had other detection equipment besides cameras.
Cameras seemed a bit odd when you were going away from all light but
many thought we would simply run across another universe. The cameras
did seem to be getting something from beyond our universe.
When our cameras focused beyond the light of our universe we managed
to get an image. One image dominated our screens from all directions
we pointed the camera. One thing existed at the edge of the universe.
Bigfoot.
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